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Cymatics - Voice Coil Chladni Plate Driver

Hand-wound voice coil coupled with a thin aluminum plate to display vibration patterns in a fine medium. A project to be published in Make Magazine in 2008.
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resonantdave (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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What kind of sound source did you use or would you recommend? Are there any devices I can look for?

The swiveling base is a good idea.
alexdata (3 months ago) Show Hide
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How is your setup? Do you have it setup like this:
1.Metal Plate on top.
2.Coil under the metalplate.
3.Magnet under the coil
4. Plastic supporters under the magnet
And then a soundsource connected to the coil directly, thus making it jump on top of the magnet?!?! Would you be able to take a picture, make a film, on the setup itself?!?
TheRealVerbz (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Look at a picture of the asteroid belt in our solar system.
All the asteroids form a circle like a Chladni pattern not quite in harmonic alignment.

You can levitate light objects with acoustics on an x, y and z axis.
3 speakers at 600 hertz levitates a ping pong ball.
The ping pong ball starts to spin as its levitated.
Imagine Earth as a ping pong ball.

The rate of spin of the ping pong ball corresponds to the frequency that is levitating it.

What is 1038 miles an hour converted into hertz?
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If we can calculate the frequency the ping pong ball is being levitated by knowing the rate of spin, then we can calculate the frequency that is levitating Earth (Terra).
Perhaps Earth is called Terra because of the bandwidth that it generates.

If 3 speakers can levitate a ping pong ball and make it spin faster according to hertz frequency... then imagine the center of the Milky Way as a speaker on the x axis.
Imagine Andromeda as a speaker of the y axis.
and another galaxy on the z axis.
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What happens to a ping pong ball when it is in the focal point of 3 intersecting waves at 90 degree angles?

It levitates and spins.

What is Earth doing?
It is levitating and spinning.

2012 marks a time where Earth will be passing through a focal point of 3 Galactic waves on an x, y and z axis.

The Universe is moving up a frequency.
What happens to a 2D Chladni pattern when it moves up a frequency?
It changes configuration.

What happens in a 3D realm?
Spin faster.
40 hour days to 24 to 13.
pocketspy (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Sorry to take so long to get back to you, but do you think you could a plate that could work like a sonic gold panning device. I thought that if you could find out how natural gold dust reacts to the point that it would congregate into the center, you could develop a way to separate the gold from the other elements. It may take awhile but I figure if you were along a river known for gold deposits, you could elctronically pan in the dry soil and get yourself some gold. What do you think?
EdwinWiseOne (3 months ago) Show Hide
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It seems quite reasonable, since different particles react different to the vibration (at different frequencies).
thego69 (4 months ago) Show Hide
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im trying to find the sound of the yah's music scale, can anybody tell me where to find it...
a web or anything, please respond if anybody knosw

XD gracias!
EdwinWiseOne (4 months ago) Show Hide
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The plate is, itself, just the "cone" of a custom-built speaker.
EdwinWiseOne (4 months ago) Show Hide
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That would be great! What you need, though, is a flexible barrier (maybe spandex or latex sheet) to span a gap between the plate and the walls of a box.

Any rigid edge will mess up the vibration patterns.

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