If you often find yourself at a loss for words in the heat of an argument, perhaps this Periodic Table of Swearing is something you might be interested in. Built as a marketing tool for the British comic “Modern Toss”, the table features over 100 fruit machine (slot machine) buttons, each of which triggers an audio clip of the cheeky word or phrase listed.
The buttons were mounted on a piece of laser-cut MDF which makes up the table’s surface, while all of the wiring and the guts of the machine are neatly tucked away underneath. Clay, the company that actually built the table, doesn’t elaborate a whole heck of a lot on the details other than stating that it includes over 100 meters of wiring, 300 solder joints, and a whole lot of swearing. We imagine it could likely be replicated with a small micro, an SD card reader, and a couple of speakers – for anyone interested in having one of their own.
While it’s not a hack in the strictest sense, we’re sure it’s a great conversation starter ender, and we did get a chuckle out of the demo video below (Warning: Language).
[Thanks, Jack]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/28411435 w=470]
You should add a “censor” switch that just makes everything say beeeeep.
I was thinking an old keyboard might make a good basis for the keys.
Recycling is a lot easier than buying over 100 push-button keys, and cheaper too!
Monetarily cheaper, maybe. Chopping up a cheap membrane keyboard, or worse one of the older types that’s actually built to last more than a few months, into individual keys and actuators? I’ll leave that to someone who just doesn’t care how much of his life he’s wasting.
Or you could learn the PS/2 protocol and use it as-is (maybe with some relabeling). The only issue is that you’re stuck with the keyboard layout unless you’re willing to waste a lot of time reconnecting things. There’s even an article here about interfacing with one, though I CBA to look it up. It also gives the benefit of far fewer wires to deal with.
Yeah. A much better way would be to stand naked in a public place and have passer-by select your nipple, moles or random warts as inputs and simply memorise the relevant swear-word, shouting it out loud as they press. Good fun and very economical too.
Link to the where I can buy some buttons like that? Well, maybe a slightly smaller version. Those things are huge.
Google is my friend…
http://na.suzohapp.com/pushbuttons/pushbuttons.htm
Suzo Happ is the preferred choice of video game restorers everywhere. Basically indestructible.
Could not stop laughing.
Same XD
You’re welcome!
Now THIS is one worthwhile project! An Arduino with a Wave Shield, an SD card with 100 or so short sound files and you’re in business! There’s so much room on the card that you could give the user choice of speaker gender and attitude for each button. I love it! Imagine it, an Arduino with a sense of humor. . .
In its current form I find it somewhat useless. A periodic table lists elements in their most basic form (definition of the word element!).
This takes the swear word and puts it in a phrase. I think it would be better thought out if the main table were to be made up of single words, and then use the lanthanide and actinide series as the fillers for the rest of the phrase.
I immediately thought “there oughta be an app for that”, and there is… for Android. Apple evidently hasn’t seen fit to approve the iOS version.
Ah, the Brits have such a colorful swear vocabulary! “Face like a sh*tflap” is a new one to me ;-)
Which button do you think the designer pushed first when he realized that they included the Lanthanide Series but forgot the Actinides!
I’d guess Bfh, though I’d probably use Mfm.
BTW: This would work better as a website, then you can send them a link to a particular word to someone and tell them to turn the volume up.
when you make said site, please link us!
This is the dog’s 39!
wow! so sophisticated with that british accent and classical music!
I muted a Vimeo video somewhere in the past, and now this video doesn’t include a volume slider to un-mute it.
In the spirit of the post, god fucking dammit.
A videoplayer without volume control is unacceptable in all circumstances in my view.
Nice layout, buttons and project. Too bad that he had to spoil it by making it so lame and only occurring to make it swear. Didn’t occur anything better?
i love that British accent, it makes it so classy :-)
Nice! Reminds me of the old soundboard websites.
I learned some good new swear words too!
LOL ! I had to stop mid-way through. IT IS HILARIOUS…thanks HackaDAY for making my day !
Surely a periodic table of single swear words can be made which then can be combined to form … mole-cul’s (mole asses).
With periodic groups an everything. The period of the excrements, blasphemy, mental decease, physical decease (only the dutch use these), body parts, and so on.
I bet we could wring a theory out of that one !.
Needs to be connected to the interwebs. Immediately.
“…over 100 meters of wiring…”
Good lord, what’s wrong with these people?