MIDI Glockenspiel

A child's toy glockenspiel fitted with solenoids driven by MIDI through an Arduino board. Using midiO and GarageBand to produce some music by Philip Glass. As it doesn't move much while it is working this is a video pan around it and some close up shots of the construction. Full constructional details are posted on http://www.thebox.myzen.co.uk

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• MIDI
• glockenspiel
• xylophone
• Arduino
• music
• DIY
• Electronics
• Gadget
• Mechanics

[rosavitormd]

Great project. Congratulations. I'd like to know where I can buy the driver you used in this project, LM18293, I looked for many online stores and I didn't find it.

[Mike73Cook]

@rosavitormd You can use the ULN2803 to drive the solenoids, the chip I used is, I think, now obsolete.

[weevil76]

Great work! You should make a few more and sell them.

I think Highly Liquid also sells a premade midi kit that would have eliminated the arduino.

[Mike73Cook]

Thanks:-

If you eliminate the Arduino you only have to replace it with something else and the atmega168 chip is quite cheap. Problem with selling it is that the solenoids make it too expensive. Also I am too busy on new things to find the time to make money.

[trainguy111]

Can you make more robots?

[Mike73Cook]

Yes I am making another sort of playing robot at the moment but it will be a few months before it will be finished as it is a much bigger project.

[DeathMetalRatte]

WAIT!! so glockenspiel means glockenspiel in english too? awesome! its like kindergarten!

[calhemp]

hi mike, what a wonderfull toy adapt. when i see this video, i will try to do the same, follow your instructables,but what kind of solenoids you use.

searching on google i found this.

solenoid 44a

are the same?.

thanks in advance, it will be a entertaiment for my try to do this, in my first project with arduino.

[MimzySongs]

so cool =D

[Nanovirus5995]

Aww. So cute

[samymag]

nice i want it now!! have u heard detektivbyrån? they should get one of these.

[weevil76]

maybe just a parts list and schematics?