If you are running out of swear words to comment the magic smoke coming from your electronics, [Howard] has just the right weekend project for you: The reverse swear box. Most swear boxes would have you drop in a coin as penance for uttering your choice phrases. Instead, at the touch of a button, this obscure but classy device randomly suggests a four letter swear word and displays it on a 14-segment LED display for immediate or later use.
It’s built upon an ATmega168 and only requires a minimum of external components. The schematics and firmware for this project are freely available on the project page. There’s also an extremely profane header file, packed with 37 case-insensitive four-letter words you may not actually want to include in your toolkit. On the other hand, many of these words score intimidatingly well at Scrabble.
False advertising. Reverse swear box should be an ATM I curse at. Cursing passwords? Will not withdraw money if you are not genuinely emoting. Shows you a picture of some neighbor or celebrity you hate and g d m and f and then boom, 100 in cash flops out.
Finally, a hack I can use
Are you sure it is not just measuring your resistance?
5 Meg Ohm seems about right. ;)
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How about the music styling of ‘Richard Cheese’.
“You gotta get up, come on get down with the sickness…”
Did anyone else thing “5 meg” as in “5 Megabytes” when they first saw it?
No, you cup of putrid smeg. Smeg short for smegma i’ll let you look that one up.
Still, is that really a swear word? There’s got to be some better stuff in there. But I would have expanded the display so I could use things like “rat farts” – still my favorite from Caddyshack
Lol, seconded.
Always Sunny has quite a few unusual ones. :)
How does 5MB even enter your head……. unless you upgraded an 8 slot 30 pin SIMM 486 motherboard from 4×256 to 4×256 and 4×1024… (w00t will slackware boot off floppy now? Kept whining about not enough low memory….)
For those who don’t get it, check out Red Dwarf. See previous obligatory quote. As an aside, a long time ago in a far far away land a friend build a “Turing Test” system for a science museum that responded to keyed input. It had a blacklist of swear words not to be used. Unfortunately, it also had a keyboard command that dumped the entire blacklist. Kids like to play with keyboards………
I’m not really impressed with this at all, but it might inspire some YouTube commentators to grab a soldering iron and learn a little bit of programming.
Just thinking it would probably be more fun to have a big labelled “Swear Jar” that has a proximity switch and blasts out storms of invective any time anyone goes near it.
Or coin slot with photointerrupter switch, so everytime you drop a coin in you get swear word. That would be true reverse swear jar.
And good for getting your teenagers to donate to the household vacation fund. Until they figure out slugs, anyway.
I have a bear soft toy which swears a variety of phrases when u squeeze it. Made in PRC yrs ago…
I like how he used the ‘BRAIN’ routing algorithm to get a single sided board with just a couple of straight links on the other side.
The board looks really good for a DIY!
I probably would have put a programming port on there to but I understand why he didn’t – they take up so much room for routing on a small single sided board.
Surely, as this box has sworn at you, it should eject a coin ?
Milk?