Comments on: MIDI controlled xmas bells http://hackaday.com/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:19:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: agent420 http://hackaday.com/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-32763 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:24:48 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/#comment-32763 I’ve been interested in automated mechanical music for a long time. I am currently building a solenoid driven xylophone, and have been looking for a cheap set of those bells for a while.

Check out these pages…

http://home.comcast.net/~rblang/xylotron/xylotron.htm

http://logosfoundation.org/instrum-god.html

]]> By: kaelb http://hackaday.com/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-32762 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:01:34 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/#comment-32762 i’m 14 and i’ve been teaching my dad about microcontrollers… not the other way around.

]]> By: sam http://hackaday.com/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-32761 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:29:22 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/#comment-32761 Give the kid a break! Sure his dad may have helped him but it sounds like he did a lot of it himself too. Plenty of youngsters are into electronics (I know I was at that age, building Dick Smith kits!).

]]> By: roo http://hackaday.com/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-32760 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:20:02 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/#comment-32760 i’m 13 and i own a Parallax BS2 microcontroller. that looks like some serious wiring i wish my dad could teach me all that stuff. i have no idea how to do that

]]> By: JB http://hackaday.com/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-32759 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:33:19 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/#comment-32759 Nice hack. If I could only find that bell set now…

And what is wrong with the propeller? It is a nice entry level 8 core chip. Besides, it is obvious that the kid got a lot of help (read: adults did all the work) from his father, uncle and Parallax, which gets free advertising now ;)

]]> By: Daniel http://hackaday.com/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-32758 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:34:53 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/#comment-32758 So thats how nerds are made.
I agree, propeller!?

]]> By: drew http://hackaday.com/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-32757 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:33:02 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/#comment-32757 THAT IS REALLY AWESOME i wish my parents would give me that kind of stuff i could never afford anything that complicated

]]> By: mike http://hackaday.com/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-32756 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:01:37 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/#comment-32756 Parallax… Yuck.

Project overall. Awesome.

]]> By: tehchaymes http://hackaday.com/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-32755 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:46:40 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/#comment-32755 Wow.. We had a set of those when I was a kid. I think my mom still has them. Too bad that ripping the set up would have incurred her wrath.

Maybe I’ll do it now…

]]> By: Dokument http://hackaday.com/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-32754 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:53:02 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/#comment-32754 wow, i wish my parents were even 1% as into electronics as his are.

]]> By: JCF-Maynard http://hackaday.com/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/comment-page-1/#comment-32753 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:21:54 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/04/02/midi-controlled-xmas-bells/#comment-32753 Wow his mom and/or dad did a good job.

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