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We were fortunate enough to StumbleUpon the most useless machine ever. Delightful! Eclipsed perhaps by the world’s most useless machine copy. We say that because the doll arm looks more realistic which creeps us out in a very entertaining way. So these machines aren’t useless, they provide entertainment.
We, on the other hand, have had some projects that really fell on their faces. With that in mind, show use your most useless machine. Please leave a comment after the beep.
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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.
The Arduino?
Those machines are wonderful. I am going to build one soon.
Thanks Hackaday.
I see what you did here. “Useless Machine” … “Hack a Day”…. Just saying…..
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!
That is totally awesome
Well actually an infrared hand flashlight would be useful if you have a black & white camera or night vision use…
I like the part where it turns itself off :P
Amazing!
The blossom of stupidity…
terrific!
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”.
The most useless machine in the world: A unpatched Microsoft Windows Computer.
“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?
hahahaha
This one got me giggling even more because, well, look at what the ‘hand’ looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F_BKe-XWo4
I’d love to embed one of these useless machines into the desk of a receptionist with a little sign in front of the switch saying “Push switch forward for service.” :D
“The most useless machine in the world: Any Microsoft Windows Computer.”
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Zymastorik wins! Unanimous. DAmn
Thats Great! Nice conversational piece.
I nominate this: http://i37.tinypic.com/rjmb77.jpg
It is a pneumatically-driven robotic chair-sitting machine, that is broken.
A can opener which can only open, open cans.
I could have sworn that this has already been covered on hack a day.
http://hackaday.com/2009/09/19/web-controlled-dark-crystal/
relying on my pot head this post already was here
@stunmonkey
Well technically the human body is a biological machine, so wouldn’t Caleb take the top honors himself.
What’s with the Caleb-bashing here 8 years ago? Caleb generally knew what he was talking about, far as I remember. Or is this before Benchoff started working here?
This is an old idea — the “Do Nothing Box”. I had one when I was a kid back in the ’50s, and it was of course all mechanical — AND WE LIKED IT! :-)
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 :)
Wwhat:
Its not an issue, its a feature.
I think most of the whiners here have a blue-veined junket pump that is useless…
i think the iphone/app store
appel make a greed phone but forget it need a good accu that work loger than 5 a 6 ouhr
http://www.flabber.nl/linkdump/video/blinde-stuitermachine-2955
Not my own, but the Robotic Bagpipe Player otherwise fully qualifies for this discussion:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/mcblare/
http://www.nycresistor.com/2009/01/20/mp3-grnade/
That’d be my most useless machine to date.
Arthur Ganson’s artwork may fall into this category…
http://www.arthurganson.com/
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.
@Wwhat LOLZ. Ahahaha.
Thats what i need! :D
in a different point of view “The Most Beautiful Machine” like the idea of Claude E. Shannon
http://www.kugelbahn.ch/sesam_e.htm
Ugh, geenstijl. They’re the dutch ebaums
You know, this might be useful as a doorbell.
would this be considered self-preservation? lol
Staples Button
Nuff Said
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?”
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