THE MOST USELESS MACHINE
Photograph by Sam Murphy
PARADOX BOX
Last year I saw a video of the “Leave Me Alone Box” built by Michael Seedman. Flip its switch on, and an arm reaches out of a door to turn the switch back off. That’s what it does, that’s all it does, and it will not stop until its circuit is dead.
I had to have one of my own, so I made one. Seedman’s design uses a microcontroller ...
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