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You have to use your imagination here because I'm not going to draw the pictures... Two of the same picture, one is bigger than the other...

Here goes. Remember, use your imagination.

This is a weevil =====> /( · . · )\ This is a weevil =====> /( · . · )\
So...........................................................................................This ^ is the lesser of two weevils!
 
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You have to use your imagination here because I'm not going to draw the pictures... Two of the same picture, one is bigger than the other...

Here goes. Remember, use your imagination.

This is a weevil =====> /( · . · )\ This is a weevil =====> /( · . · )\
So...........................................................................................This ^ is the lesser of two weevil!

Where oh where is that GROAN button?
 

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Where oh where is that GROAN button?
Here you go:

Groan[1].png
 

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http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/musicmachine.asp
the best!!- saw this years ago- still impressive
That is so cool!! But it was a bummer when I went down the page and read that it was fake; just a CG package that someone put together. It goes on to include that people call the Smithsonian to find out where it's located.

But go down the page a little further still and Intel did build the real Music Machine.
The link they provide is dead (it was for 2011 I can't understand why)

So I did some hunting and found it.
The music is a lot better and smoother


Here's the story in the Intel machine

The crowd-pleasing project cost approximately $160,000 to build and debuted at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

The orchestra's conductor is a palm-sized computer motherboard powered by an Intel Atom processor surrounded by dozens of wires and white PVC tubing that snakes from one instrument to the next. The seven embedded Atom computer systems operate a video security camera to sense accuracy of the moving parts, a digital synthesizer for the sound, digital signage and a multi-touch interactive display that allows people to see what makes the whole operation hit the right notes.

Rubber paintballs are fired by

the sensor-equipped, computer powered system to create a song that has 2,372 notes.

"This was done from concept to creation in 90 days," said Marc Christenson from Sisu Devices, an Austin, Texas-based technology integration company that builds motion, vision and machine control automation.

"This thing has seven Atom processors total, from three different generations, that are working together harmoniously to play the song," said Christenson, whose company co-built the musical demonstration project with Intel.

"It's running three different operating systems, including Windows-embedded XP as a real-time operating system," he said. "It has 250 industrial interconnects, 36 paintball hoppers that shoot rubber, glow-in-the-dark paint balls to play 2,372 notes in the song."
 
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