Little Red Riding Hood, from an engineering point of view
 

Wow. My school projects sucked.

I'm right there with you

that beats the crap out of my 2 foot 7-segment display ran by a PLC.

Be sure to check out the video that inspired it.

It's neat, but seeing the technique applied to a story I already knew made me laugh.

That was awesome. Definitely more work than I EVER put into a project!

Most interesting project I ever did was making a light bulb from household items... Don't really know the benefit to that now since candles are much easier to make(foil, cotton, and cooking oil) and where are you gonna get the electricity for a home-made light bulb in an emergency?

I finally figured out what that reminded me of! Not really the same, but the scene in Fight Club where it shows the main character's apartment with prices and descriptions like it was in an Ikea catalogue. Wow, ten years already?

Makes me think of Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy.

Didn't catch it (reviews weren't so hot). Guide entries would be a lot like that. They had some in the TV series in the 80s.

A lemon battery.

Glad I'm not the only one.

The TV series was the best.

They won an award for computer graphics for that show, and there wasn't any in there - all done by hand.

I only watched it for Zooey Deschanel but it turned out to be a... kinda funny movie. Parts of it are ridiculously stupid but it has its moments.

Same reason I watched Yes Man and The Happening but those actually turned out to be pretty good movies.

Relatively speaking my school projects looked cool. I did some animation projects in my senior year of high school (1989) on an Apple IIe. I got many complements on my animation because I spent a lot of time on the details. I remember on my Christmas project I spent 2 weeks just working on the fire in the fireplace, but when I was done I had the most realistic 8 bit fire you'd ever seen...

-Jay

Some of my friends did animation work back then, but on Amigas. I stuck to programming the guts of things, which doesn't have much flash to it to anyone who doesn't program as well. Then were the writing projects: two creative writing assignments in four years. They really loved their literary analysis of Greek tragedy and Shakespeare.

Our school didn't have science fairs. Is that common?

I wish we had Amigas, but my school had Apple II's. Being the computer geek I staked out one of the few Apple IIe's with a color monitor as mine on the first day of class. Most of the computers had green monochrome monitors.

I had an Apple II+, then a IIe, and finally a IIgs (that one was totally stillborn). Didn't get an Amiga until college. My friends got them earlier and one of them was a mac guy as well. Did a lot of time on BBS's, where most people had C-64s.

A few years ago when I was applying for a building permit to make some ski condos, a friend of mine threw together a CG version of the building, and I took pictures of the site and the relevant textures. It simulated how it'd look from the road and a couple other angles. Small town board, so they had their socks blown off, even though objectively it wasn't difficult :)