StickHarp Mini - a smaller, more portable backscatter light harp!

i built this system mainly because i do a lot of work in the field and was getting tired of lugging around the larger StickHarp, which although fun and easy to play, is slightly unwieldy by comparison. i was worried that the StickHarp Mini would be difficult to play because of the tighter light string spacing, but fortunately it's easily manageable by simply using a different playing technique. more ideas in the works... and more light harps on the way! ;?)

anyone interested in building their own light harp should check out:

http://www.lightharp.com/resources

most parts can be purchased from our sponsor, Gravitech:

http://www.gravitech.us

Category:

Music

Tags:

• light
• harp
• arduino
• nano
• gravitech
• LHI
• stickharp
• mini

[lightharp]

it's just a square wave at the moment unfortunately.  the real magic happens when you plug in the MIDI. i should probably just use MIDI in all the vids from now on so people get the big picture.

i've thought about sculpting the square wave into a sinusoidal wave using a smoothing cap or something, but the main problem would still remain, which is that the audio needs to be polyphonic. i know there are a lot of monophonic synths out there, but these harps need to be able to play chords! -p

[BadChizzle]

I really like this idea!

What kind of wave are you getting?

I nice sine wave would sound good.

Maybe even an lfo and other synth mods would be cool. Good work man!