Xylobot

About the hack

The Xylobot is an Arduino-controlled Xylophone, capable of handling Midi-input. We hooked 6 servo-motors up to an Arduino running a custom firmware, a java application manages the handling of the incoming midi data and sends serial commands to the board.

Creators

Ramsey Arnaoot

Robert Böhnke (robb ø beer2peer.com)

Hardware used:

1 Arduino microcontroller

6 Servos

1 Xylophone

Hot glue

Wood

Software

Download it here, if you want to : http://beer2peer.com/hackday/xylobot_software.zip

Media

Debugging going on : http://qik.com/video/2952774

playing a short loop : http://audioboo.fm/boos/64616-music-hackday-xylophone-monome-arduino-mac-mhd