Synths, signs, and scrolling!

• I've no idea how I missed Greig Johnson's making channel before now, but this story of making a working Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy from junk is well worth your time. (Note: occasional strobing colours.) This isn't just a Guide being made: I don't want to spoil where this video goes, but if you have any knowledge of Douglas Adams' work in any medium, you should definitely watch this video. There's a lot of other videos on this channel that I intend to get to at some point! (Thank you Jane for the suggestion!) 
   
• Alex Ball recreates OMD's song Enola Gay using as much of the original equipment as possible. Despite knowing very little about music production, I found this fascinating: a tour through 1980s synths at the point where analogue electronica was just giving way to digital, and a story about a band taking cheap, available, limited synths to their absolute limits. And there's original research here: references to asking the band themselves how it worked!
   
• A student project, interpreting the extremely-fast "Guns and Ships" from Hamilton into American Sign Language. But not just as a solo to the camera: this has a cast with costumes and a bare-bones set of props, and the full playlist makes it clear that a lot of tracks were performed live (and then, presumably, restaged for the close-up camera). I don't know ASL, but I looked up the gestures used for "Alexander Hamilton": it's the signs for A-H, but with the H pointed to look like a gun. I can only assume the rest of the translations are just as clever. (Thanks Leisa for sending this over!)
   

• Tying into the sign language video above: yes, you can have regional dialects and accents in sign language, that's well-known. But I didn't know about GSV: British sign language's "gay sign variant". (Related for those haven't already heard of it: Polari, the source of quite a few mainstream modern English words.)
   
• "Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? ... I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door."
   
• A sort-of-1D game. That looks a bit like Doom. And there are current news headlines in the background of the dungeon. And you play it by scrolling. Congratulations to the punmaker who thought up DOOMscroll. (Previously, on the same domain: quote-puzzle-game Gisnep.)
   

And finally: "behold my latest keyboard." The thread just keeps going and going.

All the best,

— Tom