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  • $WMc%$WMc% Posts: 1,884
    edited 2011-09-09 16:54
    Jar-Jar
    '
    WiFLY GSX 802.11 b/g @ Roving Networks.
    '
    This will let your smart phone control all kinds of stuff.
    '
    This post will self-destruct before 9/17/11
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2011-09-09 16:58
    Maker Faire ticket in hand. I will try and crash the gate at 9:58 AM to be the first to know. :)

    I will then liberate Ken's Quad Copter with the new WiFi module attached and broadcast pictures to the masses. If that doesn't work I will take the new Stingray with the new mystery Arduino controller board to spread the news.

    That's the plan. Don't tell Ken.
  • blittledblittled Posts: 681
    edited 2011-09-09 20:42
    8 more days until it's revealed? I'll be on vacation!! I'll sneak my laptop along or better yet tell my wife there is a detour due to bad weather and drive to the Maker Faire instead of the Outer Banks :)
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-09-09 21:13
    TSA will know, before the rest of us, what the Mystery Product is. Is that fair? I ask again, "IS THAT FAIR?!!" What has TSA ever done for Parallax? I think it's time for all Forumistas to join together, revolt, and bulldoze the labyrinth of mystery that surrounds this project!
    Two, four, six, eight.
    What do we not tolerate?
    Secrecy! Secrecy! SECRECY!

    attachment.php?attachmentid=84944&d=1315627660

    The incursion has begun! Resistance is futile!

    -Phil

    Um, does anyone have a mole inside Parallax? That would make the Revolution ever so much simpler to pull off, and we could all get back to our margaritas and Spin programming that much quicker. 'Just sayin'.

    Come to think of it, there is a guy by the code name of "Red Herring". I think he can be turned, given the proper incentives....
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  • bsnutbsnut Posts: 521
    edited 2011-09-09 22:52
    Come to think of it, there is a guy by the code name of "Red Herring". I think he can be turned, given the proper incentives....
    I am Red Herring and name your price. They owe me products.
  • BrowserBrowser Posts: 84
    edited 2011-09-09 23:29
    bsnut,

    proov that u r red herring and not dubble agent. otherwise, consequencez could be -- let us say -- interesting.

    -the committee
  • __red____red__ Posts: 470
    edited 2011-09-10 01:11
    they said they'd announce at makerfaire.

    Makerfaire is today in Atlanta.

    I can't wait to meet my parallax homies. I'm even bringing my first parallax project to demo to the masses!
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2011-09-10 02:54
    I'm guessing a Propeller based Interositor.
    "Increase the Flash Gordon noise and put more science stuff around!" :smile:
  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2011-09-10 05:37
    ajward wrote: »
    I'm guessing a Propeller based Interositor.

    Will we have to build it ourselves? How many crates of parts will I need to set aside room for?
  • ajwardajward Posts: 1,130
    edited 2011-09-10 07:56
    sylvie369 wrote: »
    Will we have to build it ourselves? How many crates of parts will I need to set aside room for?

    Just 2486 components. However, no Interocitor part can be replaced. Bear this in mind while assembling.
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,401
    edited 2011-09-10 07:57
    Browser wrote: »
    bsnut,

    proov that u r red herring and not dubble agent. otherwise, consequencez could be -- let us say -- interesting.

    -the committee

    Browser, you and your Che Guevera lookalikes should spend your time hunting for rodents. There's no shrimp in the mystery project anyway, so kindly retreat to your jungle hideout.

    Ken Gracey
  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2011-09-10 08:02
    ajward wrote: »
    Just 2486 components. However, no Interocitor part can be replaced. Bear this in mind while assembling.

    And we have to supply our own fire extinguishers?
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2011-09-10 08:04
    Ken,

    I was just going to bring up the shrimp situation, but it looks like you addressed it already.

    Browser is one dedicated cat. I hope he brought his US Postal Service box with him.
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2011-09-10 10:53
    What is is it? Will it revolutionize the way cities are designed? Does Steve Jobs think it is cool?

    Did Good Morning America decline to do the reveal?
  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2011-09-10 11:03
    Is it something you can carry in your pocket? Or is it something that carries you in its pocket?

    Is Leo Auffman the mystery collaborator?
  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2011-09-10 11:28
    ajward wrote: »
    Just 2486 components. However, no Interocitor part can be replaced. Bear this in mind while assembling.

    Hah! Does the kit include a 3 foot square lead shielding for private conversations?
  • Matt GillilandMatt Gilliland Posts: 1,406
    edited 2011-09-10 11:46
    Red Herring reporting in - Base! Do you copy?

    I'm inside target- "Building X", aka "Parallax".
    It's Saturday 11.25 am PST.
    Have successfully defeated alarm system with Code supplied by W9 through contact Browser.

    I'm looking right at the "Mystery Project" - it's in plain view.
    Amazed that they'd leave it out in the open like this!?

    Helmet Cam damaged during parachute malfunction - rough landing on roof of target. Sorry no video feed.

    I'll have to describe it to you:
    It's got an oddly shaped, large yeh
    Someone coming!
    .
    .
    .
    (hiding now) please do not reply to this transmission as it may be being traced...

    I'll take a quick pic with my backup camera and post it.
    .
    .
    .
    Batteries dead in Camera! no pics! no proof!
    Comrades! I have failed you!
    Operation cancelled. Extraction operation in process?
    hello?
    .
    .
    .
    hello?

    This may be my last transmission - Carry on my friends! Keep up the pressure and together we shall triumph with No-More-Secrets!

    -RED HERRING signing off
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2011-09-10 12:10
    <...sniff...>
    We'll miss Red Herring around camp.


    <...sniff...>
  • RonPRonP Posts: 384
    edited 2011-09-10 12:31 
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  • BeanBean Posts: 8,129
    edited 2011-09-10 13:12
    This has got to be one of the best threads of all time.
    I love the imagination of the members here.

    Ken told me what it is. But I had to sign a contract that allows him to do laser cutter experiments on my right arm if I tell anyone.
    So sorry folks, but his laser cutter looks like it would be very painful.

    Bean
  • RonPRonP Posts: 384
    edited 2011-09-10 13:16
    @Bean

    I don't see the problem you would still have a left arm.

    -Ron
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2011-09-10 15:25
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  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2011-09-10 15:39
    W9GFO wrote: »
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    squirrel what?
  • BrowserBrowser Posts: 84
    edited 2011-09-10 16:08
    bean,

    red herring haz failed, so yoov been drafted into the moovment:

    attachment.php?attachmentid=84965&d=1315696032

    ur nom de guerre iz frijole. tell us what u know, pleez. now.

    -cmdr. browz
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  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2011-09-10 16:24
    Oldbitcollector (Jeff) wrote: »
    squirrel what?

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  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2011-09-10 16:33
    W9GFO wrote: »
    ... --.- ..- .. .-. .-. . .-.. .... .- ... -... ..- ... .... -.-- - .- .. .-..

    OH
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2011-09-10 17:00
    -.-. --- -.. . / -. .- -- . / -... ..- ... .... -.-- / - .- .. .-.. / -....- -....- / -... .-. --- .-- ... . .-.

    Why no MIDI as a valid extension for an attachment?
  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2011-09-10 17:42
    Publison wrote: »
    -.-. --- -.. . / -. .- -- . / -... ..- ... .... -.-- / - .- .. .-.. / -....- -....- / -... .-. --- .-- ... . .-.

    Why no MIDI as a valid extension for an attachment?

    The Mystery Project will make MIDI obsolete.
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2011-09-10 17:55
    ajward wrote: »
    However, no Interocitor part can be replaced. Bear this in mind while assembling.

    I'm impressed anyone under the age of 50 would know this inside reference! :lol:

    Here now is a real red herring for Browser

    red-herring.jpg


    -- Gordon
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  • RoscoeRoscoe Posts: 2
    edited 2011-09-10 18:01
    Ken, I will guard projek from catz. I like barking at catz.
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