[raspberry-vi] Re: Pringles Speaker
- From: Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:00:07 +0000
Hi Mike. As if we need more evidence, here's another cool video. For a
hardware geek like me if i had enough floppy drives i'd atempt it! wait
for it to kick in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE
Mo.
On 29/03/2013 00:21, Michael A. Ray wrote:
> 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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