[raspberry-vi] Pringles Speaker
- From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:21:17 +0000
Hello list,
The world has very definitely gone mad. This is a theory I've been
postulating more and more for several years now, and it's not just
because I'm turning into a grumpy old man.
Here is more evidence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTyCQK5YZ9A
It seems this is a little battery powered, amplified speaker which will
sit on the top of a Pringles can and it has a 3.5mm jack plug on the end.
I first came across these things when I was looking on Ebay for small
battery powered speakers. At first I thought maybe it was because some
bright spark had realised the Pringles tube was a good acoustic
resonator. No...it's to encourage people with no grasp of hi-fi sound
to eat more Pringles.
I don't know if the guy in the video would know good quality sound if it
bit him on the butt, but...
Apparently you can get this little gizmo by chomping your way through
three promotional packs of Pringles and sending off for it.
I wouldn't recommend it as a good way to appreciate the sublime tones of
Gustav Mahler, but it would plug into your Raspi and give you cheap
sound. If you write any shell scripts that do stuff that takes a long
time, you could get espeak to tell you when it's finished. Like next
time you run 'sudo apt-get upgrade'.
Mike, definitely not a grumpy old man.
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Michael A. Ray
Analyst/Programmer
Witley, Surrey, South-east UK
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