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From: Guy Thouret <g...@thouret.co.uk>
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On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 09:54 +0100, Bob Clough wrote:

> Its time to start thinking about what we should make for our stand at
> next year's maker faire! 
> 
> ... any ideas?


I think it needs to catch attention - something to stimulate the senses.
How about some sort of an organ?

It'd require a compressor, some assorted lengths of tubing - (shiny
copper with lights on?) maybe a manifold for distributing the air and
some kind of actuators to direct the air to the tuned pipes.

Could automate the whole thing to play simple tunes - I did a project
many years ago that parsed text files in RTTF (Nokia ringtone) and
played them.  There are loads of song files all over the net in this
format (ok it'll play lots of music from like 1999/2000).

I'm quite excited about this now, thinking about neat plumbing with
copper hardware.

Some references:
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-5/Pipe-Organ.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_pipe
http://www.inspiredacoustics.com/wiki/index.php/Pipe_organ

Going to finally make it down on wednesday in anyone wants to discuss
it.

Guy.

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On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 09:54 +0100, Bob Clough wrote:<BR>
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    Its time to start thinking about what we should make for our stand at next year's maker faire! <BR>
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    ... any ideas?<BR>
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I think it needs to catch attention - something to stimulate the senses.&nbsp; How about some sort of an organ?<BR>
<BR>
It'd require a compressor, some assorted lengths of tubing - (shiny copper with lights on?) maybe a manifold for distributing the air and some kind of actuators to direct the air to the tuned pipes.<BR>
<BR>
Could automate the whole thing to play simple tunes - I did a project many years ago that parsed text files in RTTF (Nokia ringtone) and played them.&nbsp; There are loads of song files all over the net in this format (ok it'll play lots of music from like 1999/2000).<BR>
<BR>
I'm quite excited about this now, thinking about neat plumbing with copper hardware.<BR>
<BR>
Some references:<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.madehow.com/Volume-5/Pipe-Organ.html">http://www.madehow.com/Volume-5/Pipe-Organ.html</A><BR>
<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_pipe">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_pipe</A><BR>
<A HREF="http://www.inspiredacoustics.com/wiki/index.php/Pipe_organ">http://www.inspiredacoustics.com/wiki/index.php/Pipe_organ</A><BR>
<BR>
Going to finally make it down on wednesday in anyone wants to discuss it.<BR>
<BR>
Guy.
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