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The Engineering Methodology class this year invented percussion instruments that could all be played from the same MIDI piano, or from MIDI files that could be dumped to the piano. The goal was a robotic percussion orchestra that would possibly be useful in a musical or dance performance. Each group brainstormed ideas, learned how to use the machine shop, investigated electronics, solenoids (coils driving a magnet through induction), and servo motors, and did Matlab programming. The individual websites of the students show these processes.
Click on the video link to the right of each group's number below to see short clips of their instrument demonstrations.
Click here to see them all played at once. Click here to see some goofing around after the formal demonstrations concluded.
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Group A1: drums & cymbals
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Group B1: water chime
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Group C1: hanging bells
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Group A2: sub-bass drum
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Group B2: steel pan drum
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Group C2: robo-thumb-piano
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Group A3: toilet plunger organ
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Group B3: glockenspiel
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