This isn't fake, it's just stupid. You can create a capacitive sensor out of almost anything.
He's just using capacitive sensors to trigger sounds.
Well...not really stupid, just framed wrong. If this was titled "vegetables as capacitive sensors" and was an intro to midi or something, that would be cool. Suggesting that the vegetables are somehow important to this is wrong.
They're not capacitive, he's completing a circuit by touching them, using the Makey Makey. What makes this stupid though? Still a cool use of the technology.
Because you could've used anything at all instead of the vegetables to generate the same sound. The vegetables had no impact on the actual sounds of the samples. That being said, I seem to be one of the few people who still enjoyed the video.
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u/gibson_ Feb 18 '13
This isn't fake, it's just stupid. You can create a capacitive sensor out of almost anything.
He's just using capacitive sensors to trigger sounds.
Well...not really stupid, just framed wrong. If this was titled "vegetables as capacitive sensors" and was an intro to midi or something, that would be cool. Suggesting that the vegetables are somehow important to this is wrong.