http://www.deathtotheflippers.com Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:09:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.deathtotheflippers.com/2009/12/09/naughty-or-nice/ http://www.deathtotheflippers.com/2009/12/09/naughty-or-nice/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:13:18 +0000 flipper01 http://www.deathtotheflippers.com/?p=502
This year, for Christmas, Stuff Club made a Naughty or Nice detector. It works by re-creating the special magical sensors Santa has in his lap which tells him if the children in his groto deserve a lovely gift or a piece of coal. In our version we’ve stripped it down to just a massive over-sized lap (to help create that terror you felt as a child), which deals out a reward or a punishment and sends that result, plus a photo, to naughtyornice.tumblr.com for all to see.

 
This is all made possible by some back-end cleverness by Mattias Gunnerås, some Arduino tinkering by Tracy Tsang, and some wood cutting/screwing and painting by me, Jas, Badger and Martin Rose. It was a bit of a mammoth task as we had to get the whole thing done from scratch over the weekend so we could keep it a surprise from the rest of Poke, but we managed it – well done gang!

 
Here’s some construction photos (have you ever wanted to see under Santa’s trousers?).

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