so cool

Posted at 9:49 am on Sep 23rd, 2009 by chicosoft

That’s a glockenspiel, not a xylophone.

Posted at 11:09 am on Sep 23rd, 2009 by Jas

thank you very much for the post.

@Jas
That’s right, though Metallobot or Glockenbot don’t sound so good and xylos is greek for wood, of which this is made :)

Posted at 11:42 am on Sep 23rd, 2009 by robb

I’m happy that hackaday is making fun of it’s users about the whole arduino thing. arduino’s are nice.

Posted at 12:41 pm on Sep 23rd, 2009 by Hiroe

hi, nice that you cover Music Hack Day. Really was an incredible awesome amount of fun for everyone. I hope that there are going to be more in the near future.

I just wanted to clarify something, so people do not to get over excited. Tracks On A Map and CitySounds weren’t just built in one day. We continued tweaking them afterwards … so a lot of more man and woman-power were used to push them forward …

But still: Getting into hyperflow for 20-hours does result in incredible projects :)

Posted at 2:38 pm on Sep 23rd, 2009 by johan

Build similar “instrument” in hs to play Soviet hymn on heating pipe to annoy neighbors

Posted at 9:06 pm on Sep 23rd, 2009 by therian

The xylotron was the original project, back in 2000… Bigger, better, badder.

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

Posted at 3:18 am on Sep 24th, 2009 by Agent420

glockenspiel or xylophone, man that’s picking battle that may never see a conclusion. Every generation of kids learn it as a xylophone, if they ever hear a name put to it all. A kid hammering away at one or someone who can play a recognizable tune, the things aren’t pleasant to my ears at all.

Posted at 11:13 pm on Sep 24th, 2009 by Doug

why use expensive servos? you could easily use dc motors and a spring-loaded lever.

Posted at 3:50 am on Sep 25th, 2009 by jωt

you know this is pretty sweet … and as for servos their better. they are geared for weight. Finding the right weighted spring would be a pain. Besides the servos can be programed to go back to a set location and if he wanted to add a second xylophone it can be placed above the hammers and program the servos to work in reverse for a second set of tones for a different effect.

Posted at 12:08 pm on Sep 27th, 2009 by shortwave