Five questions for the men who made a compass pointing to Times Square and Olive Garden

Here’s a question almost no one asks: How do you get to the Times Square Olive Garden? Well, those lovely weirdos Answer it – The team that made it Times Square Olive Garden Compass. If that wasn’t clear enough, let me explain. They make a compass that points you exclusively in the direction of Times Square Olive Garden.

I thought this was an April Fool’s joke when I came across my TikTok feed. Then I talked to the creators – Jason Goldberg and Steve Nasopoulos, who I worked in collaboration with Globe Globe Laboratories – And I learned that, at least, no Which Kind of a joke.

Disclaimer: I can’t say you should buy this, use it, or go to Times Square at all. If you do, be prepared to dodge mysterious elmos and naked cowboys.

Well, obviously, Why? Why now? Why doesn’t the compass point to Times Square Margaritaville, for example?

Why? Because we’re tired of guessing the way to Times Square and Olive Garden. Sure, we could’ve looked at our phones, but in a world where we’re all glued to each other, creating a more analog experience seemed appealing.

We chose Olive Garden because they offer lasagna as a side. Let’s see M&M’s do it!

Our readers love the specs. Tell me how it works. What kind of technology are you using here to determine the compass point to Olive Garden in Times Square in Manhattan?

For this question, we enlisted the help of the great folks at Glub Glub Labs who did all the hard technical details: We use an Arduino Nano microcontroller to manage the compass’s inputs and outputs. The Nano is connected to a GPS module (SAM-M10Q) which is typically used for drone navigation, a gyroscopic sensor to track rotation once the unit is locked into a north datum, a stepper motor to operate the dial, and is powered by two batteries salvaged from some disposable e-cigarettes.

Since the Olive Garden in Time Square doesn’t move (as far as we know), all of this can work offline, using encoded coordinates, the user’s GPS coordinates, and some onboard trigonometry.

We care very much about our terms of service Edge. Your terms of service are very funny and very specific (eg: “Do not walk off a cliff or into the ocean”). How did you come up with them?

Honestly, we’d never created terms and conditions before, so we were mostly imagining scenarios we might want to not be responsible for (we’ve ruled out walking into an active volcano for now).

Offer is limited. waiting list. How many of these do you plan to make? Can you tell me anything about the price and release date?

We are still exploring the exact production numbers. But the response so far has been really strong, with over 2,000 people on the waiting list. Way more than we expected. Since we want to maintain this high quality, we will probably keep them in a very small quantity, like fifty pieces at a time. That is, unless Olive Garden contacts us and wants to take this global…

Release date coming soon! Join the waitlist to be the first to know.

Is there anything I’m missing about the compass that points you to Times Square and Olive Garden? Here’s your chance to tell me.

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