solenoids | Hackoustic

Tute Chigamba: Sun 25th Jan. 2015

This meetup, we were joined by Frederic Roksam; a sound and an acoustic engineer who has experience of working in organisations such as IRCAM and Philips Consumer Electronics. One of the participants [ Adam ], playing an African made Mbira, specifically made by the craftsman in the video below. The simplicity of the tools being…

Auto Glock: Sun 30th Nov. 2014

People stare at a Solenoid-Powered Glockenspiel… This Sunday witnessed a significant upgrade to the design of the Frame Project, which is thoroughly detailed here [ link ]. This preliminary version is an A-type frame, and the main advantage is the vastness of space created to place much bigger objects. Frame v2.0 upgraded design – uses curtain…

Maker Faire: Sat 15th Nov. 2014

We recently had a lot of fun participating at the Elephant and Castle Mini Maker Faire. It was inspiring to meet so many creatives and makers, and to receive such great feedback. This is the summary of the event, with videos, photographs and some sounds! The Frame has somewhat always been a core project we’ve…

Sun 26th Oct. 2014

The sound of metal on metal, and clickety-clacks of springs on rods and relays – flawlessly automated. What more could one ask for? Call for Works We’re excited to be participating in the Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire 2014, taking place on Saturday 15th November at London College of Communication. If you would like…

Sun 28th Sept. 2014

This week we didn’t have a speaker so it was a great opportunity to get some hacking done. We started by working on an automated Glockenspiel that Lucia had begun to make.Using solenoids, a relay board and an Arduino, we managed to get some sounds out of the kids Glockenspiel we had. A pretty good…