just add a Ethernet shield and make it twitter when you rotate your food lol

I’m sorry, but this definitely doesn’t deserve the MIT tag. I could have easily built this in high school…

Reminds me of when they spin the wheel on The Price Is Right.

Seriously though, I’d rather starve than endure that awful noise during my meal. Not to mention I’d kick the person who kept spinning the table. As satisfying as the 140db alarm clock.

Might have more appeal if instead, rotating the table triggered random sound files such as “The cow says MOO”, pure gold there.

Whaaambulance on the way.

The best bit of this was that you guys totally dissed them and it was awesome. (Y)

Would have been better if it was a drinking game.

Oh look. THIS thread again

At least they chose SoulIISoul’s “Back to Reality”. At least somebody still has some cool left in them.

This can be done with a simple cheap kids piano toy and some contacts and some soldering. Yeah lets power it with arduino. Overkill… :) FAIL!

You know it’s MIT stuff when it’s a yawner of an idea, simple to implement, and wrapped in a pretentious wrapper of high brow bullshit. Sad when even the top uni’s have to lower their standards so much in order to let even some of the “let no moron behind” publicly educated dolts get in.

I really like the pseudo-intellectual bullshit they had to tag on to get a govt grant to do this. I guess this counts as social engineering hacking ;P

On the other hand they are losers for not being able to explain themselves without polysyllabic bullshit. I think maybe it’s time for me to harass these chimps and their entire department heads until someone else pulls the plug on these bullshit artists.
/jus sayin…

my grandmother always says
if you can’t say anything nice, then don’t say anything at all.

but…
seriously, this shouldn’t have the MIT moniker anywhere near it.

as a Cambridge native, I’ve seen more creative hacks from the burn out street musicians hanging around Harvard Square.