I made this thing for an assignment in my sculpture class. The arduino controls seven servos, one for each copper tube. The each servo has an arm attached to it. When the servo moves, the arm hits the copper tube producing a pleasing note. There is a delay of 30 seconds between each servo movement so it doesn't make too much of a rukus in the exhibition space.
I love the flexability of the arduino and how easy it is to use. In fact the electronics were the easiest part of this project.
Jimmy, I am completely in awe of this! Brilliant! As I mentioned in an earlier post, this is similar to a concept I have for a project with wind chime tubes, although your vision is clearly far superior. Can you share a bit about the striking mechanism? I am most curious about how you attached the hammers to the servos, and how the hammers are constructed. It looks like there is some kind of rubbery ring around a dowel? Would you care to share the code, or if not, perhaps a general description of striking algorithm?
Many thanks, and congratulations! I hope this gets a good response from your target audience!
and have a remote that can control the delay of the dings!!!!! and you could even use one of those long tubes as an antenna! it would make it interactive, if you wanted to go that way...
