Stepper Motor Music With an Arduino

Version 2.00 is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh2AWswAMvw




Stepper Motor Music with the help of an Arduino

This is the first of many videos I'll be posting of my stepper motors playing music. The data for the music is taken from a MIDI file I made. The code for interpreting the data and moving the motors was written by me over the course of a few days.

The sound you're hearing is coming entirely from the motors. The motors are screwed into some pieces of aluminum from an old project to help them resonate. I'm taking requests for other songs to play.

Currently, the information for the song is stored on the Arduino. Plans for implementing a realtime MIDI stream are underway. Eventually I'll be able to plug in a keyboard and play the motors as though I were playing piano.

These motors (and their L-shaped aluminum bracket mounts) were taken from The Pipe Dream MIDI Robot that I built in 2008 (see my other videos). I reluctantly disassembled that machine when I moved out of my old house.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• arduino
• stepper
• motor
• music
• mario
• mechatronics
• machine
• microcontroller
• MIDI

[dieselstruck]

are u serious????

[cmhiekses]

I am always serious.

[telesniper2]

Very creative. Well Done!

[simpapp]

Thank you, this video is vary funny! Wich controller are you using, after arduino, for your Stepper motors? thanks

[MrNeoFromMatrix]

looooooool

omg, lol

i must watch it again

genius !

[garfrankwyn]

the best youtube mario cover I've seen, screw the beatboxing flute guy, the blindfolded piano player, the two guitar dude, you win!

[mrfreakengineer]

freaky awesome can u attach a free source code so we can do a similar project and mybe adding another music ???????????

[Shan23Studios]

I instinctively grabbed my joystick (pad now), ha ha ha ha ha

This is so cool, unexpected nice toon

(For the Haters: Mario is still on Nintendo DS XL and 3D very actual)

I agree this was genius use o stepper motor speed. Arduino is a Genius too! We all know that.

[hugo2biwan]

This is great :-) congrats ! i like a lot and have soon seen a makerbot playing starwars theme with the motors: impressive.

[TheNymans]

@MattyHild The motors MAKE the frequency

[HeadmasterFox]

Freakin awesome!

[jaxo110]

thats a bit sad but at the same time really cool!

[kledder2]

Lol. This is amazing.