Comments on: Fart intensity detector

By: derk

derk — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:46:27 +0000

are they gonna put that on their resume?

By: jay

jay — Wed, 13 May 2009 07:29:55 +0000

sonica,
I was not saying it was easy to pull off, though its certainly not rocket science, I was just saying that it is useless. I will make the comment however, that pulling all nighters usually means that they procrastinated to begin with or wanted to get it done in less time than it should have taken.

@jim k
I know not all hacks have to be practical, but when you are doing a project to show what you’ve learned, you normally make it useful or at least give the impression of usefulness to show that you appreciate the knowledge you have acquired rather than something like this which makes your knowledge seem silly and useless.

By: Jim K

Jim K — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:53:46 +0000

Not all hacks need to result in practical outcomes IMHO. I think this is a pretty great proof of concept type project where the end result may not be something of intrinsic value, but rather it’s the path getting there that is important. I’ve given myself MANY useless projects just to learn more along the way.

By: jason

jason — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:17:34 +0000

Real mature. I’m sure whatever college educated these clowns is proud of their lame achievement. It’s not even funny, I hope they go to engineering hell.

By: Dan Fruzzetti

Dan Fruzzetti — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:24 +0000

Could lead to an extremely useful machine in the pig farming and farm regulating industries.

By: Nicklaus Michael (Cold)

Nicklaus Michael (Cold) — Sun, 10 May 2009 09:12:31 +0000

@ oNo
I did read the entire article.. and in the begining it reference to twitter project earlier.. as I was as well.. both projects regardless of twitter are a waste of talent and obviously Im not the only that feels that way so maybe you might want to keep to yourself buddy…to be inspired by such device is to be 5 yrs old

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 10 May 2009 02:41:49 +0000

That’s sick. For the next revision they need to make the user fart into the center of a superconducting magnet to get an NMR spectrum :-D

By: sonica

sonica — Sun, 10 May 2009 01:32:00 +0000

actually, jay, it was a really hard project. there are 4 sensors, which means lots of c coding for all the hardware. the boys ended up pulling more all-nighters than they’ve ever done before. (this is the guy on the left’s gf speaking btw).

By: jay

jay — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:49:37 +0000

Seriously, are they 12?

Ugh, the reason they make you do a final project is to show that you’ve learned something and bring innovation. I hate to see wasted talent and even more wasted components, web space, bandwidth, and my time to type this comment.

By: sarah

sarah — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:21:55 +0000

hah, robert, you are here, lol

By: robert

robert — Sat, 09 May 2009 17:14:46 +0000

Thanks for your input, guys. I do not look like Rupert Grint!

By: r4ze

r4ze — Sat, 09 May 2009 16:22:44 +0000

Sorry! now that I reread it (and im not half awake) I see what its about.

By: pburgess

pburgess — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:47:37 +0000

The guy on the left kind of reminds me of Alan A. Allen (as played by Rupert Grint) in possibly the greatest movie of all time, “Thunderpants”:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/b000p6r9lm

(Which just happens to be a movie about an eccentric scientist kid and a pair of flatulence containment trousers.)

By: LILO

LILO — Sat, 09 May 2009 14:23:38 +0000

OH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE CALL IT THE “FLATU-RATER”.

By: oNo

oNo — Sat, 09 May 2009 10:19:25 +0000

@Nicklaus Michael (Cold)

Try to actually read the post before you sumbit a totally irrelevant comment, this has nothing to do with twitter, and even if it did so what, people can still learn from those projects, how to get things from the everyday world to interact online, even if you dont like the twitter part, the sensors they use can still be interesting to read about.