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Big Mouth Billy Bass Videoconferencing
scubamage writes "Whilst browsing the net today, I found a link to a hardware hacking project by a well established Stanford graduate. His goal is to take those annoyingly popular Big Mouth Billy Bass singing fish, and not only allow users to interface it with their favorite linux box, but also to allow it to lipsync, and eventually be used as a videoconferencing peripheral. Quite an interesting read, complete with step-by-step instructions to make your own, and software source to be played with."
The comes under the same heading as TCP/IP over bongo drums and Evil bob the builder toys - pointless, but exceptionally cool and well worth wasting your time on :)
An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of
> Why we don't have a cure for cancer ... The greatest minds of our generation
> are too busy trying to get animatronic fish to sing, "Livin' La Vida Loco!"
I can't tell if you were joking or not, but since you are modded +5 insightful, I figured a serious response was in order.
I myself am into computers and electronics, and have done my share of hardware hacking as well.
I know squat about biology.
The two fields have very little to do with eachother.
Please stop telling the electronic engineers of the world that they have picked a stupid thing to be interested in , and to go work on biology which they may very well hate.
You yourself have a trade, and I hope it is related to something you enjoy doing as well. You have the exact same potential to go learn how to cure cancer as anyone else, especially when that is a field you arnt interested in either.
If you are that concerned about cancer, you can go devote your life to that study instead of doing all the things you enjoy, cure cancer, and stop your bitching.
When some doctor does find a cure for cancer, are you going to dismiss that and complain that they didnt also solve the worlds energy problems and single handedly killed SCO too?
The parent post shows clearly why we now need a new category so that we can score posts "-1, Needs a sense of humour".