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Uploaded by on Mar 27, 2011

Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton
From the game Portal by VALVE

Arduino Uno + shift registers + MOSFETs + solenoids + xylophone + great composition

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  • How did you make the xylophone/metallophone/glocken­spiel? Did you buy it or did you make it like they did in the NerdKits video?

    Btw I am german and a glockenspiel is definitly something else! Or do you see any bells?

  • @Bustelicous One of my older brothers played percussion in middle school so we've had this one lying around the house for a few years. The NerdKits' cut steel bars just seem insane... every other part of the project like the wiring and soldering and programming seems within easy reach of any electronics hobbyist.

  • Very nice work.

    It's a glockenspiel not a xylophone but it's great either way

  • @russelljenkinsfearn lol, in the "Arduino Xylophone" video I address the common misconception. See, nobody cares about glockenspiels, they're just not popular or marketable. And only if you are a musician, read a lot of Wikipedia or are German would you know the difference.

  • would it be possible to get an instructional vid on this? or the source code even? i'm using the nerd-kits video for it and want to play something more complicated like this but i can't program to save my life! lol.

  • @quickpenn i'm working on it! sooooooon!

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  • Return the Aperture Science Automatic Metallophone Device to the test chamber and await your cake.

  • @ande4723 hi.

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  • @iF6u why not make one.... WITH MEEEE MWAHAHAHA!!! by (tentacle rape monster)

  • Hi Kara3030, is it possible for you to upload a sound file, preferably at higher resolution (320k or flac)? I want this for my phone's ring tone!

  • Way cool!

  • I know you probably really don't care... But that really is a glocken­spiel. Xylophones are low pitched and typically made of wood. Greek xylon meaning wood and phone meaning sound...

    Despite the german word for bell being in glockenspiel they don't have bells... That's probably why #Bustelicous was confused... I think they were named after bells because of their metallic timbre and typical high pitch.

    Sorry if this is unimportant to you. :P

  • This makes me want to brainwash babies so they grow up to be awesome.

    If only I had children....

  • @KRA3030 awesome. i'll let you know how mine turns out. this is just to cool not to try!

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