Arduino Nano - Light Harp Powerhouse!

[crashinaluscombe]

I find myself comforted by Anna's voice. When I feel friends are nowhere in sight I come back and listen to Anna. Thanx. Give her opportunities to record hits with your lightharp acompanying her.

[sanp64]

Beautiful voice.

[Nanovirus5995]

She has an absolutely Gorgeous voice! Excellent Arduino work aswel. Im doing a reversed laser version of this using MIDI in.

[lightharp]

@Nanovirus5995 thanks! i'll tell her you said that. now i'm curious - what do you mean by "reversed laser version"?  is it a framed laser harp?

[Nanovirus5995]

@lightharp Hehe, any time ;)

I am trying to make a system so instead of making a MIDI signal from the arduino by using LED's and using that signal in junction with a synthesiser to make the sound, im attempting to make a system so you feed the Arduino a MIDI signal from a computer or keyboard to move a position of a servo/stepper motor. Its tricky work, but I hope I can get there. Its similar to a laser harp but the position of the motor will deter where the laser shines. Like "Animusic".

[lightharp]

@Nanovirus5995 that sounds pretty sweet. it's definitely doable! servos are super easy to work with. the Arduino has pulse width modulated outputs and an integral servo controller library. there's even an example sketch that sweeps a servo - you could easily modify it to do what you describe. let me know if you need any help. good luck! :?)

[Nanovirus5995]

@lightharp Yeah Will do. I was doing a lot research on using Servos and after doing a little testing myself I found that the servos produce wavy lines when they are moved while the laser is on. So I have decided to use a stepper motor instead. I will be trying to produce a driver circuit over the weekend so I should hopefully have something working in about a week. Might not be the full product but I will keep you up to date ;) Might start posting some videos on my progress.

[lightharp]

@Nanovirus5995 sweet! yeah, please do keep me in the loop. i'm curious to see what you come up with. -- Peter

[Nanovirus5995]

@lightharp Hello Peter, just like to let you know over the past couple weeks I have been busy with college work and preparing to go to University soon. However, I am still heading forth with this laser project (I will tell them all about it in the Bournemouth University opening day tomorrow ;) Should love it) so just to keep you in the picture, I am still working on it, but I am slightly bogged down at the moment. Love to get it done so when I do, I will inform you ;)

[Nanovirus5995]

She has an absolutely Gorgeous voice! Excellent Arduino work aswel. Im doing a reversed laser version of this using MIDI in.

[pocketsk3824]

cool device. beautiful voice. 

[songwriter2020]

incredible

[lightharp]

@songwriter2020 thanks!  :?)

[BadChizzle]

Wow, beautiful!

Nice video as well.

This is really an awesome and great sounding Harp.

[lightharp]

@BadChizzle thank you! i can't really take credit for the sound, as it was synthesized in Apple Logic based on MIDI control commands from the harp. unfortunately, the harp's only integrated synthesis at the moment consists of square wave tones through a piezo speaker. useful as a diagnostic tool when i'm too lazy to plug in MIDI, but i'm working on some better solutions.

[ejayerik]

Excellent promo Peter!

[lightharp]

thanks, brother! we gotta do a studio2stereo episode on light harps... tease our viewers with something they can't obtain yet! :?P