The YayTM is a device that records a person dancing and judges whether or not the dancing is “Good”. If the YayTM likes the dance, it will dispense a dollar for the dancers troubles. However, unless the dancer takes the time to read the fine print, they won’t realize that their silly dance is being uploaded to YouTube for the whole world to see. Cobbled together with not much more than a PC and a webcam, the box uses facial recognition to track and rate the dancer.
The YayTM was made by [Zach Schwartz], a student at NYU, as a display piece for the schools Interactive Telecommunication Program. Unfortunately there aren’t any schematics or source code, but to be honest, having one of these evil embarrassing boxes around is probably enough. What song does the YayTM provide for dancing, you ask? Well, be sure to check it out here.
EDIT: [Zack] has followed up with an expanded writeup of the YayTM. Be sure to check out his new page with source code and more info. Thanks [Zack]!
I just got Rick Rolled by HackADay… smh
“This video contains content from Sony Music Entertainment. It is not available in your country. ”
bastards
You !@#$ what the heck, did you really just do that Hack a day?
It was probably the EULA, that is owned by Sony.
never gonna give you up, never gonna turn around and desert you! *horn toots*
mmmm desert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02A0ZcA_Ybk
nuff said.
Omg… I love the Kenya dance…
Millions would spit from the YayTM
Hey, cool, it’s not just that he thinks automated mockery makes some kind of point worth hearing, but he can’t even run a blog with a working comments system. What a goober.
i want one. i would dance forever and receive infinite money. it’s like a glitch or an easter egg in a game!
@ Aaron
u jelly
Badgers badgers badgers, mush room mushroom!
Seriously… this is a hack? No code, no anything but a “lookie what we did” so there is no proof that it’s not just a hoax with someone watching to press a remote button…
Enforce your own documentation rule, HAD.
the description is online at tisch (part of new york university): http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/winter2010/2010/12/12/yaytm/
“the piece will notify the user after they have taken the dollar, that they have entered into an agreement to have their used likeness online.”
sounds like the prank of an immature sociopath. nyu must not have an ethics commission like other universities do or the instructor (nugent) doesn’t care.
ITP is an abysmal program. NYU cons a bunch of rich artsy types into paying enormous sums for a graduate education in arduino and processing. The student projects are almost always poorly conceived and painfully inept in execution. This project is simply a reflection of the environment in which it was conceived.
Someones a little bitter, they reject you?
Dancing judged from above the waist, wasted! No foot work seen, total defeat! TV censorship from the 1950’s did better.
You got to move to the music to move the music.
Lame dancing, lame music.
rick? rolled? the? fuck? hack? a? day?
Well, ‘least I didn’t get rickrolled. From the comments here it sounds like I didn’t miss out by not clicking on the links.
I come to hack a day out of habit now, reliving the hey day of when it was “hack-a-day” in the true meaning of the blogs title. When every photo was a black and white photo of some cobbled together gizmo.
I dont mind the arduinos that grace the pages today or the occasional highlighting of a product/device that could be hacked. Sadly Articles like this blatantly disapoint me. Maybe someone could develop a wordpress plugin that asks “does this meet Hack a day standards?” when they press the publish button
– no documentation? (check)
– rickrolled your readers? (check)
– not even a link to lame and/or hot chicks dancing? (check)
I don’t usually like to go negative, but this was even moer lame than the GIRL who put WHEELS on a DRESSER to make a TOOLBOX.
How about making the last line of any “filler” “hack” an appeal to your readers to use the HaD tip line so we don’t have to read crap tomorrow?
Ahh fuck. Rick Rolled by Hack A Day AND YayTM’s website.
Great project.
Hey, Immature Sociopath here. I added some documentation and a video of me using the Yaytm. Hugs and kisses. http://zachschwartz.com/2011/01/yaytm-documented/