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Homemade Robotic Xylophone Plays Holiday Melodies
- dano 16y agoThis is very impressive and I appreciate the engineering education to boot.
- compumike 16y agoQuick video shortcuts: 60-second demo of the xylophone playing itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR3xmof8rZY#t=11m50s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR3xmof8rZY#t=11m50s Machining our own solenoids on our lathe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR3xmof8rZY#t=5m5s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR3xmof8rZY#t=5m5s Fun fact for the programming-minded folks: Songs are programmed in with C macros. GCC kept trying to inline the note-queueing function, but that bloated the compiled program size tremendously (despite specifying -Os on the command line). We had to use a GCC directive to force it not to inline...