composing articles for Hackaday, we see funny projects, as well as we see harmful projects. It’s unusual to discover a job which combines the two. this one somehow manages to pull it off. [Outaspaceman] is familiar with LittleBits, however he’s just starting to discover Arduino programming. He completed the blink tutorial, however blinking an LED just wasn’t sufficient fanfare for the success of his very first Arduino program. He connected the Arduino Mega’s LED output to a pair of LittleBits which then switch a servo between two positions. A bare servo wouldn’t be much fun, so [Outaspaceman] connected a tentacle as well as a little Swiss army knife. Yes, a knife.
The tentacle in concern is created to be a finger puppet. There’s something about a tentacle waving a knife around that is so humorous as well as absurd that we couldn’t assist however laugh. We’re not alone apparently, as this video has gone viral with over 1 million views. It’s practically like a violent revenge of the most useless machine. For the technically curious, the tentacle’s seemingly random movement is analogous to that of the double pendulum.
Our readers will be pleased to understand that [Outaspaceman] has made it to the Arduino servo tutorial, as well as is now controlling the servo directly, no LittleBits needed. We just hope he has a great method to turn his development off – without the requirement for stitches.