Last year I participated in the first annual IOTHackDay and I met cool people and had fun. Yesterday I participated in the second annual IOTHackDay. I did and it was a blast. The team I was on built an automated xylophone, or glockenspiel. We had been building it for a month and saving the programming for the IOTHacDay itself. This was a whole project and instructions to duplicate it may be created someday but today I just want to give some teaser pictures of what happened and show the people who made it happen.
Our team didn't win and we didn't care one bit because we had so much fun hanging out and finally seeing this project WORK. Our chimes filled this event space with a Harry Potter song, Hedwig's Theme. It drew attention and we had a lot of people ask intelligent questions and they really saw what we were trying to do.
The group assembled made this project so much fun and there's still work to be done. In the end this project will not just be controlled by an Arduino but the input mechanism will be an EEG (electroencephalograph). That's right, brain controlled music. If more progress is made on this there will be updates.
First time here?
Completed projects from year 1.
Completed projects from year 2.
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Electronics including an Arduino MEGA and 20 relays for controlling 120VAC
Another view of the electronics.
This reminded me of some of the industrial wiring I've done for my job
Workshop view. Ladies showing off the xylophone platform on the left.
Me on the right pretending to be concentrating
Ladies on the left, teammate Josh on the right operating a drill press
Another demonstration of the platform. Inexpensive lumberyard wood stained
Test coding on the computer and rocking out on the right
The rest of the pictures were taken at the IOTHack day event
Our table was hidden away in a corner. We made a lot of noise with our marching band glockenspiel
One of the first attempts at applying power sent this solenoid to the electronics graveyard
Doug, with the beard, joined our team the day of the event
Panorama shot of our secluded corner
We finally brought our xylophone into the demonstration area and fine tuned some of the mallets
Top-down view of the xylophone, mallets, and mechanics. Only 14 keys were needed to play a song
Panorama of the event in full swing
Our team didn't win and we didn't care one bit because we had so much fun hanging out and finally seeing this project WORK. Our chimes filled this event space with a Harry Potter song, Hedwig's Theme. It drew attention and we had a lot of people ask intelligent questions and they really saw what we were trying to do.
The group assembled made this project so much fun and there's still work to be done. In the end this project will not just be controlled by an Arduino but the input mechanism will be an EEG (electroencephalograph). That's right, brain controlled music. If more progress is made on this there will be updates.
First time here?
Completed projects from year 1.
Completed projects from year 2.
Disclaimer for http://24hourengineer.blogspot.com/
This disclaimer must be intact and whole. This disclaimer must be included if a project is distributed.
All information in this blog, or linked by this blog, are not to be taken as advice or solicitation. Anyone attempting to replicate, in whole or in part, is responsible for the outcome and procedure. Any loss of functionality, money, property or similar, is the responsibility of those involved in the replication.
All digital communication regarding the email address 24hourengineer@gmail.com becomes the intellectual property of Brian McEvoy. Any information contained within these messages may be distributed or retained at the discretion of Brian McEvoy. Any email sent to this address, or any email account owned by Brian McEvoy, cannot be used to claim property or assets.
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