Oh. My. God. Geenstijl (the green crown icon, http://www.geenstijl.nl is the main site, http://www.dumpert.nl is the video site) on HAD. It’s like a weird merger of absolute internet-crap combined with internet-awesomeness, HAD being the latter, obviously.

Oh and the currently most useless machine in my posession would be my cassette-tape player.

Those machines are wonderful. I am going to build one soon.

Thanks Hackaday.

i don’t know what is this about, i read something about showing your most useless hack….
so here goes one of my hacks: the infrared hand flashlight
nice huh?
i’m about to take pics and a description of another of my hacks to post it here, but nothing yet..
see ya!

Well actually an infrared hand flashlight would be useful if you have a black & white camera or night vision use…

Amazing!
The blossom of stupidity…

The first “Leave me alone box” was built by Claude Shannon, based on one of Marvin Minsky’s ideas. It’s simple to build, really fun, and you fell compelled to have your own.

My most useless creation was a graphical LCD screen from a Nokia phone showing views of the mandelbrot set while LED flowers flashed all around … When I showed it to my friends they asked “what’s it for ?”. Doing electronics for fun or making stuff without purposes seems hard to understand for some people. I like to call it “art”.

“show us your most useless machine”

Dude, there is no way we can compete with a pro – how are we supposed to top the stuff Caleb Kraft comes up with?

“The most useless machine in the world: Any Microsoft Windows Computer.”

/fixed

Thats Great! Nice conversational piece.

http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/

@stunmonkey

Well technically the human body is a biological machine, so wouldn’t Caleb take the top honors himself.

Funny, but I think MS might have a patent because it’s a know issue with windows that it can get in a state where it shuts itself off after boot :)

I think most of the whiners here have a blue-veined junket pump that is useless…

http://www.flabber.nl/linkdump/video/blinde-stuitermachine-2955

http://www.nycresistor.com/2009/01/20/mp3-grnade/

That’d be my most useless machine to date.

I once put a lightswitch on a box.
It wasn’t attached to anything. It was just a lightswitch.
I’m still not sure what it’s supposed to be.

Thats what i need! :D

Ugh, geenstijl. They’re the dutch ebaums

the most useless machine i made is a switch i put on a cardboard box that i tell people to flip when they go into my room. It’s only function is to make people say “what does that do?”