Sunday 9 June 2013

365 Project: Photo 160

A final picture from my time at the awesome Cheltenham Science Festival. The picture itself, taken in low light, at a distance, on my phone, is a poor one; but the subject is very impressive. No, not the little old lady annoyingly encroaching on the right, focus on the veg. This is actually...... a drum kit! Each vegetable is resting against a nail that pierces its skin and the nail in turn is wired up to one of those electronic, synthetic drum kits that the kids like. If you then touch one of the vegetables the circuit is completed and you get a snare, or bass or whatever. Even the floppy old leaves of the beetroot work which is somehow even more counter intuitive as the softness of them is further removed from the stiffness associated with drumming. Anyway, this wasn't actually related to anything, it was just shoehorned in to a live version of Dara O'Briain's Science Club, which should be coming back for an exciting 2nd series later this year.


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