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Isn’t that a bit… high powered?

Get yourself a set of gavanometers off ebay and do the laser scanning properly. Thats super dodgy. You can even possition the units outside the single axis your limited to atm. Perhaps even add blanking?

There is an organ that works on the solenoid principle in Mammoth Cave, except it has a conventional keyboard and the stalactites were tuned by shaving them to get correct notes (something that would never be tolerated today). Also the vibrations are not very loud so each stalactite is equipped with a microphone and it’s amplified. Okay, I guess it’s not the same at all but it does use solenoids. And maybe an Arduino.

This would be a whole lot cooler if he had something that makes a better sound than mugs.

Good stuff. Solenoid based physical/electronic music is really interesting, because you have that tangibility, but you can program things humans could never do.

fun stuff

Hey Griffin,

Nice project, but dear, _please_ take yourselt up to date with laser security before you screw up your life.

“…you can look at a laser twice…”

Gah! Eye protection man! That thing is reflecting all over the place!

Take a few more videos of that and the camera won’t work any more either..