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The Waterloo campus club that became a global phenomenon

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Socratica is a treasure trove of tech talent that lets students create everything from a laptop trombone to a space rover

April 2, 2026 15 min read Share Krish Shah hands me his MacBook and tells me to blow on it. “Aim for the tab key,” he says. When I lift the laptop to my lips and exhale, its speakers emit a brassy honk. I glide my fingertips along the trackpad and the pitch rises and falls. Shah, a lively software engineering student at the University of Waterloo, smiles as he watches. How could he not? He’s MacGyvered his computer into a trombone, a feat as impressive as it is absurd. And now, on a Sunday afternoon in late March, hundreds of people want to give his invention a try. Shah’s musical machine, Mag

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