I don't know whether we've got anyone super-geeky enough to try it, but Ali Davis sends this video as a starter for a Rube Goldberg Menorah challenge. If you're up for it, we'll take blueprints, pictures, videos -- however far you get. Surprise us.
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It should not be called a "Menorah", it should be called a "Row of Candles". How politically incorrect you are.
"Holiday Row of Candles."
Lolol...love it Laura
It could also be called a "Hannukiah".
And the candle lighting is really cool! Great job, engineers!
Why?
Why not? It's like the Japanese cell-phone company that, for a TV commercial, built a giant self-activated xylophone that plays Bach. Or the guys who stack up tens of thousands of dominoes in a row just to see if they can knock it all down with a single flick of the finger. Or (to give a spiritual example), the Tibetan monks who construct elaborate and beautiful mandalas only to destroy them. Setting and meeting challenges can be fun.
(Bach in the Forest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_CDLBTJD4M [and many other uploads])
If you choose to answer the "why" of this with any of these answers then you're arguing for a specific philosophical set ... and if you choose the why of it is "why not" then that's even another argument ... maybe even the why of it is empirical curiosity (which is yet another philosophical view) ... Just a thought
Now to engineer the biggest rotating dreidel and wager some gelt....
it would have to be self-rotating.
Awesome, and truly geekly.
Is anyone going to the Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp concert? I'm not sure if it's casual or costume. I'm going to go as the invisible woman or a fly on the wall.
Super! I love that there are still people with imagination and creativity!
Unrelated but still geek news, Voyager left the solar system today.
Okay, but what about the jelly donut?
counterweight
Sacrilege. The menorah has spiritual significance and its candles are lit one by one, over the course of 8 days, not all at once. I can surely appreciate the technical challenge being met with this robotic mousetrap invention, but honestly, this is not ceremonial, it totally lacks beauty and is a waste of computer geek resources!!! Put their enormouse talent into something more worthwhile.
I'm Jfewish and I find this video very entertaining. You are just a party-pooper.
The jews who made it, in Israel, didn't seem to find it sacrilege either.
i think it was the "enorMOUSE" that was off-putting.