Life of Pi Ep.72: The cricket sings in the dark. Pi steals the light.
A musical fidget toy answers a cricket note for note in the dark, playing Beethoven's Ode to Joy one push at a time. This is an echoPi video. echoPi is an EDC fidget slider and pocketable instrument: its clicks are real physical stops you can set up in the app, and every click can play a note. Turn the sound off and it becomes a quiet fidget for the office. echoPi is in development.
Life of Pi Ep.72: The cricket sings in the dark. Pi steals the light.
Animated short. Hardware in development.
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The cricket only sings in the dark. So Pi took the spotlight.
A cricket chirps somewhere in the dark living room, and Pi answers it note for note. Every time his flashlight finds it, it goes silent. So he builds it a stage: a matchbox, a red-napkin carpet, a bow. It hops up and sings, until the light snaps on and the star freezes. Pi turns the flashlight on himself, opens his mouth, and the cricket sings from the dark.
Music: Beethoven, Ode to Joy, Symphony No. 9 (1824, public domain), own arrangement.