During the Science Hack Day (Berlin, 2014) we developed this Processing program that listens to popping popcorn, counts it, and makes statistics.

The goal is to compare the popping frequencies with the Poisson distribution. Independent random events should follow this distribution.

Experiment's website http://popcorndecay.weebly.com/

Science Hack Day Berlin http://berlin.sciencehackday.org/

Our team (Benjamin, Felicia, Jesús, Katrin, Marina and I) won the award for Best Educative Hack.