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Mechanical Gamelan

The Hive: A solenoid powered gamelan MIDI instrument.

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This project was created on 10/08/2018 and last updated 6 years ago.

Description

A collaborative project to build a 24 note gamelan instrument that can operate as a live MIDI instrument and also play MIDI files to autonomously. MIDI files are stored on an SD card and are played when one of four switches is pressed. Further interactivity is planned including features to make the instrument operate more like a sequencer. More channels are available to allow more percussive instruments to be incorporated into the design.

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  • 2 × 27 channel DMX driver board Outputs to solenoids and LED's
  • 1 × Arduino Mega Main controller
  • 1 × Relay control kit Soft start
  • 1 × Arduino MIDI Shield
  • 1 × 4 Channel MOSFET PWM driver Powers indicator LED's

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Mike Szczys wrote 10/10/2018 at 22:22 • point

This is really cool! I'd love to hear it in action. Is there a demo video?

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Charlie wrote 10/11/2018 at 16:04 • point

Thanks Mike! I'm going to post a few making of and demo videos in the next few days. My project collaborators are in Indonesia at the moment working on a new version so I'll post some updates from them when I get them.

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