Computer controlled wine-glass thing
By tyler on Aug 29, 2008 in Electronic/Digital, Glass, Homemade/DIY, Machines/Robots, Percussion Instruments, Student Projects
Here’s a curious percussion machine created by yaaaratheone for a Physical Computing class at Union College, NY.




From: kiran | Sep 17, 2008 | Reply
amazing! is it controlled by piano keys or something?
From: tyler | Sep 17, 2008 | Reply
@ Kiran, I believe it’s controlled by some prepared sequence on a computer.
From: kiran | Sep 17, 2008 | Reply
AAAAH!! that makes sense. it would be awesome to do something like that with piano keys. =D
From: tyler | Sep 17, 2008 | Reply
I agree.
From: nate | Oct 1, 2008 | Reply
Theres 7 tones (A,B,C,D,E,F,G) not counting sharps/flats. But theres only six wine glasses here…which means one note isnt present I wonder why its like that?