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BeetBox combines vegetables and a Raspberry Pi to make sweet music

Grammar Nazis, put down your pitchforks – that's no spelling mistake in the title.

Dan Grabham Dan Grabham

This ludicrous contraption called the BeetBox certainly doesn’t need to exist, but that doesn’t mean we don’t want one gracing our desks.

The crazy setup consists of beets held in a wooden cabinet attached to a Raspberry Pi – a homemade script detects when each vegetable is hit, blasting a drum sample out of an in-built speaker.

Now if you’ll excuse us, we’re off to combine a watermelon with a SNES to created some dirty dubstep drops. It’s all the rage, you know.

[Scott Garner’s Flickr via DVICE]

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home