Banana clicker recipe
Next up, following from the Homopolar motor , is the banana clicker. This is a great way to impress your audience at any presentation, so I'll now need to find another trick... but I'll share this with you for your pleasure... just don't tell anyone until you've used this to impress your next audience. Instead of using a fancy clicker to advance your slides, use your banana. How? In short: buy this (or one of these ), plug it in, connect banana and impress. In a bit more detail (and cheaper set-up): An Arduino has a USB plug, and can pretend to be a computer USB keyboard if it is running this program . (You could buy or build your own Arduino, and just download the open source code...) The code effectively looks for conductivity between connectors, and when it measures conductivity, it sends the "key press". A banana conducts (providing you hold on to the other (ground) wire... or you can hook it up to ideally a steel lectern). Other fruit wor