{"id":1525,"date":"2005-07-08T15:21:56","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T15:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/07\/08\/making_harps_for_elephants.html"},"modified":"2005-07-08T15:21:56","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T15:21:56","slug":"making_harps_for_elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/07\/08\/making_harps_for_elephants.html","title":{"rendered":"making harps for elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos22.flickr.com\/24554166_6dc4c4d24f.jpg?v=0\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\">Last night, i went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2005\/07\/mad_scientists.html\">Mad Scientist&#8217;s Club<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squid-labs.com\/\">Squid Labs<\/a>.  It was mostly a collection of MIT geeks showing off new things they had built or talking about ideas for things to build.<\/p>\n<p>One idea that i really liked concerned the breaks of bicycles.  As you slow down to stop at a stop sign, the bike would store up energy in a rubber band so that when you were allowed to go again, you would zoom off, allowing you to stop without losing too much momentum.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos21.flickr.com\/24554326_be0562d8bb.jpg?v=0\" width=\"200\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\">My favorite story of the evening came when Saul and gang were discussing rope that they made for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squid-labs.com\/projects\/tensegrity\/index.html\">Sound and Rope<\/a>.  Apparently, a man from Thailand approached them.  He made CDs of music that elephants made.  He wanted them to build him a rope structure that would be a harp for elephants.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly though, i enjoyed the social part.  I was surprised to find that i knew folks there from three different facets of my life and it was such fun to be back in MIT creativity zone.  It&#8217;s been a long time since i built anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, i went to the Mad Scientist&#8217;s Club at Squid Labs. It was mostly a collection of MIT geeks showing off new things they had built or talking about ideas for things to build. One idea that i really liked concerned the breaks of bicycles. As you slow down to stop at a stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}