Arpangel wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:00 pm
I’ve got one, and can never remember how it works,
Depends whether you have the original wooden box or the newer plastic box version.
On the original, you squirt electricity into various holes in the back and it shocks the pixies inside, making them jump about on the switches that turn the little lights on and off. Louder signals make for more electricity and more jumping pixies in the crowd.
There's a little see-saw just inside the input holes that bounces from side to side in time with the incoming electricity and turns the power on to different pixies at different times so they turn the lights on and off in time with the electricity from the two inputs.
When you send exactly the same thing to both inputs, the seesaw gets stuck in the middle and only the pixies working the red lights up the middle get any shocks. When the electricity is very different between the inputs, then pixies at the edges of the crowd get more shocks.
Simple, but effective.
The newer one uses fairies because the box is smaller and the pixies wouldn't fit.