This art piece makes drawings based on sound. [Mario Marchese], who is responsible for those illusion props back in february, built this little guy out of a bunch of junk he had lying around. It features four microphones that listen to ambient sound and feed the signal through some LM386 audio power amplifiers. The output is translated into forward, backward, left, and right movements of the writing platform while the pen is fixed in the same position. Despite what we said in the title of the post this isn’t strictly a CNC machine, but more the primordial cousin of one.
Reminds me of…
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Unknownpleasures.jpg
The bird’s sound is really funny.
Thanks Guys! Mozart the bird is crazy. He never stops singing.
Thank you Hack A Day for publishing this today. It made my whole Sunday!!! You guys are awesome :)
wow … what were you on when you thought of this? XD … ill take 3 XD
And the pictures of the finished output? WHAT DID THE BIRD MAKE THE ROBOT DO THIS TIME?
I think the best way to describe this is a “vectorscope plotter”
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorscope )
“A brilliant conflation of acoustic-to-graphic analog events, in a perfunctorily executed mechanism.”
was that a serious comment?
artists…