[jay] reminded us of this old video of solenoids banging rhythms on furniture and household objects. There’s no schematic, but in the video it looks like an Arduino drives a bunch of solenoids through relays. The PC interface is run on Pure Data, an open source programming environment for audio, video, and graphic processing. Thanks [Jay].
That’d be a good way to get me up in the morning, my *entire* apartment making noise.
Posted at 11:59 am on Sep 25th, 2008 by Jingo
I should try this I do have a couple of pic controllers and a bunch of solenoids on hand.
Posted at 12:06 pm on Sep 25th, 2008 by Nitori
This is quite the epic noise maker. What be even more epic would be if some one cut a bunch of bamboo rods so they play notes when struck with solenoids.
Posted at 12:11 pm on Sep 25th, 2008 by Takato
never tought you would put it,i’m impressed ^^
thank!
Posted at 12:17 pm on Sep 25th, 2008 by Jay
Now just rig this up to the door bell button by the front door of your house and it will be even cooler.
Posted at 1:11 pm on Sep 25th, 2008 by mike
careful with the glass… if the solenoids get too punchy there could be an unintended crash
Posted at 3:34 pm on Sep 25th, 2008 by sly
sol, go to digikey 527-1000-ND can be had for $16 in more than 25, or $15 on mouser for more than 10 units.
I’m sure you could find used surplus for much cheaper elsewhere.
Posted at 5:36 pm on Sep 25th, 2008 by spaceballs3000
oh for mouser, part # C8-14C24DC-AP
Posted at 5:36 pm on Sep 25th, 2008 by spaceballs3000
Go to http://www.pinballlife.com for cheap pinball solenoids or just grab a bunch of doorbells and rip em apart…
remember the tunnel dwellers who lived below the city from beauty and the beast (tv series where beast had lion face). they used to bang on pipes to communicate with each other. imagine if they had a system like this. they would have been banging out some sewer techno and the lion would have danced!
Posted at 7:45 pm on Sep 25th, 2008 by uncle walter
ace this is great programing
Posted at 10:27 am on Sep 26th, 2008 by pie lord
Now THIS is creative !!
ARESOME!
Posted at 3:07 pm on Sep 26th, 2008 by JB
that what I do to my neighbor
Posted at 4:45 pm on Sep 26th, 2008 by therian
Wait a second… didn’t this article already come up on hackaday awhile ago?
Posted at 8:14 pm on Sep 26th, 2008 by pip
This guys neighbors probably want to inflict bodily harm with him pounding on the pipes like that. I wonder how long it took before someone knocked on his door…
Posted at 6:32 am on Sep 27th, 2008 by Rob
Considering that it is probably a college dorm room, not very long
Still it is epic.
Posted at 8:14 am on Oct 20th, 2008 by Black_Angel
Why wouldn’t he have used Triacs instead of relays to control the solenoids? Seems to me that it would give more resolution and they only require 5v @ 40ma to trigger.
Posted at 8:19 am on Oct 20th, 2008 by Black_Angel
yoyo.. thanks for all the comments. there is indeed no good reason to use relays instead of triacs or the like. i just had the relay board ready and at hand. next version will be driven by mosfets with probably even velocity control (need some more testing).
Posted at 2:48 am on Dec 10th, 2008 by reduzent
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THIS IS SO COOL
ITS LIKE SOME BRAZILIAN MUSIC
Posted at 11:58 am on Sep 25th, 2008 by isa de leener