Comments on: Berlin Hack Day

By: shortwave

shortwave — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:08:56 +0000

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.

By: jωt

jωt — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:50:21 +0000

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

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:13:22 +0000

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.

By: Agent420

Agent420 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:18:03 +0000

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

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

By: therian

therian — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:06:15 +0000

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

By: johan

johan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:38:27 +0000

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 :)

By: Hiroe

Hiroe — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:41:47 +0000

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

By: robb

robb — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:42:14 +0000

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 :)

By: Jas

Jas — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:09:03 +0000

That’s a glockenspiel, not a xylophone.

By: chicosoft

chicosoft — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:49:06 +0000

so cool