| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 4334.1 | dancing can coax what.....????? | GRANPA::JWOOD | | Thu Dec 21 1995 12:54 | 1 |
| ;}
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| 4334.2 | Dancing sporks? | FUNYET::ANDERSON | Where's the nearest White Castle? | Thu Dec 21 1995 13:00 | 0 |
| 4334.3 | | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Thu Dec 21 1995 13:09 | 4 |
| It's unlikely that this is the correct conference, but - what are you
talking about?
Steve
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| 4334.4 | what'd ya mean....never go into dept stores? | KANATA::ZUTRAUEN | kanata mfg engineering | Thu Dec 21 1995 13:15 | 8 |
| what...you've never seen them?
These are battery-operated flexible-plastic covered pop/beer "cans" with
microphones. When they pick up a sound, the top of the can moves
orbitally in reference to the bottom, making the can look like it's
"dancing" to the music. Typically they have markings representing
popular soft-drink or beer co.'s.
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| 4334.5 | | OGRI::63536::BELL | Martin Bell, M&U PSC, @BBP | Thu Dec 21 1995 13:18 | 9 |
| 4334.6 | Search has ended.. | JGODCL::APETERS | Hey, I can imagine quite a bit! | Thu Dec 21 1995 13:29 | 8 |
| 4334.7 | Ah yes... | DECWET::WHITE | Surfin' with the Alien | Thu Dec 21 1995 17:01 | 3 |
| Must be Christmas time...
[G]
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| 4334.8 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Thu Dec 21 1995 17:26 | 6 |
| For information about Drinking Happy Bird and the Dancing Coke Cans,
see http://www.research.digital.com/nsl/projects/dhb/dhb.html
Includes pictures and even a QuickTime movie.
/john
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| 4334.9 | | BSS::BRUNO | Burly Computer Nerd | Thu Dec 21 1995 18:36 | 5 |
| RE: .8
<Someone call EAP... QUICK!>
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| 4334.10 | | DRDAN::KALIKOW | DIGITAL=DEC; Reclaim the Name&Glory! | Thu Dec 21 1995 21:35 | 4 |
| Tell us you used http://www.altavista.digital.com for that, eh /john?
:-)
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| 4334.11 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Thu Dec 21 1995 23:59 | 6 |
| Nope, sorry. Found it some time ago while looking for something else at nsl.
But it's there, along with two other sites one of which is a links back to it
-- so it's pretty unique, but not completely.
/john
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| 4334.12 | :-))) | FSTSC1::FRANKE | | Fri Dec 22 1995 07:04 | 4 |
| 4334.13 | of course, altavista can find it for you! | STAR::BLAKE | OpenVMS Engineering | Fri Dec 22 1995 09:55 | 4 |
| > Tell us you used http://www.altavista.digital.com for that, eh /john?
I just gave altavista "Dancing coke can" and its first return was the
correct page. In less than a second too!
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| 4334.14 | levitron? | DECWET::BERKUN | A False Sense of Well-Being | Fri Dec 22 1995 13:51 | 4 |
| alright, what the heck's a levitron?
ken b
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| 4334.15 | found with Alta Vista | HDLITE::SCHAFER | Mark Schafer, Alpha Developer's support | Fri Dec 22 1995 14:07 | 7 |
| The Levitron. It is a top which, when set spinning properly, levitates
about two inches above a base. Both the top and the base are magnetic
and at the right configuration they repel. The repulsion is enough to
cancel gravity and the spinning top has gyroscopic stability so that it
can levitate for several minutes before it crashes. The instructions
say that some how the system is chaotic but I have not figured that out
yet.
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| 4334.16 | | OGRI::63536::BELL | Martin Bell, M&U PSC, @BBP | Tue Jan 02 1996 11:37 | 28 |
| Thats the one!
A square base about 4" by 4" has a powerful magnet in it, although i
don't know which direction the magnetic fields go in.
On top of the base you place a square perspex slab to help get things
started.
The top also has a magnet and various weights in the form of washers.
You spin the top on the perspex between your fingers, and hopefully get
a steady rotation (just like there were no magnets).
You then slowly lift the perspex, raising the top above the magnetic
base.
If you get the weights just right, at some height (1" to 2") the top
reaches equilibium with the magnet and remains suspended in mid air
when the perspex is removed. As there is little friction, the top spins
for quite a while.
It does take a long time to get the weights just right, and once you
have spun it, it all becomes quite boring!!!!
Cheers,
mb
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| 4334.17 | | IROCZ::MORRISON | Bob M. LKG1-3/A11 226-7570 | Wed Jan 03 1996 14:58 | 2 |
| For future reference, the correct conference to ask questions like .0 in is
CDSRV::ASKENET_V5.
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| 4334.18 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Wed Jan 03 1996 15:32 | 1 |
| Just be sure you don't say "Where's the dancing coke can conference" though.
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| 4334.19 | | SMURF::CANSLER | | Thu Jan 04 1996 12:17 | 5 |
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send mail to coke_can@puremagic.zk3.dec.com
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