RUSH E But its played on Stepper Motors

Not played by a human but...
"RUSH E" is Composed by Andrew Wrangell.
Produced By: Jonathan Kayne
Built and funded by the Virginia Tech Autonomous Mastery Prototyping (AMP) Lab.
This musical instrument uses a DE0-nano FPGA (Cyclone IV), Custom PCBs, A4988 Stepper Drivers and NEMA-17 Bipolar Stepper Motors to turn MIDI into 8 tracks of 4 volume levels.
LINKS:
Official Project Page:
sites.google.com/a/vt.edu/amp...
Virginia Tech AMP Lab:
sites.google.com/a/vt.edu/amp...
MIDI and Project Files:
github.com/jzkmath/MIDI-Stepp...
Jonathan Kayne
Twitter: / jonathanzkayne
Instagram: / glimmerziptie
#RushE

[@firealarm.]

This is amazing.
(Yo can I get my first pin ever here?)

[@Levi_OP]

wish granted

[@PerfectPilot]

My 3d printer when I’m trying to sleep

[@igroin_the_cat2264]

so true xd

[@user-cb6hn6vn4e]

True

[@firealarm.]

Fr

[@abhijeet_ghosh]

I just silenced my stepper motor drivers. It doesn’t have the right to speak.

[@user-ot4wp4mz6l]

My machine with silent stepper motor drivers:
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[@kyrioz2z834]

the feel when you 3D print something at night

[@user-ot4wp4mz6l]

Yes

[@lifislif2]

pov: my ender 3 when i start a print at 2 am

[@user-ot4wp4mz6l]

pov: my parents who i woke up while doing that

[@craigcorson3036]

I really respect people who find new ways to blend art and engineering. Bravo!

[@zoomane]

This is incredible! It was so weird not hearing the *E*, I'd love to see a video about you coding it

[@JonathanKayne]

If you are wondering how I made it, there is a PDF on the GitHub (link in the video description),
If you want to know how I made the midi file then I have a video on my channel about it

[@GEV734]

How can people dislike this? I can't see anyone stepper motoring like that.

[@jackb4]

They said humans couldn't do it.... they were right.

[@johnsmithfakename8422]

Technically ... it can be done by one person. Though technically he did cheat a bit ... he used a few tools.
ruclips.net/video/3n4jYJF8ZbU/видео.html

[@ham12314]

sounds like if rush e were a soundtrack for a mechanical level in a game

[@BunniePancake]

its beautiful in a way. im sure aperture science would approve of these tunes lol

[@the_goood_man2271]

This video definetely needs more views!

[@OstlerDev]

Seriously, like 100k more views. how the heck hasn't this gone viral!

[@丫o]

No, lbr 100k more is absurd, it should _easily_ be in the trillions by now

[@RetroSpecterGamers]

This is art

[@user-ot4wp4mz6l]

Ou yea!

[@lawnmowerdave]

This is great!! Nice work👍

[@ardonjr]

This just showed up in my recommendations. And I love it!! How this only has 20k views and 51 comments is beyond me.

[@丫o]

fr tho as of this comment, there should easily be _trillions_ of likes, comments, and subscribers, but sadly here we are. Algorithm’s so unfair

[@D4rK3sTsH4d0W]

If you had 88 stepper motors, do you think they would be able to keep up with putting the actual original midi file? I'm not sure how yours works with less than that obv you have stepper motors doing multiple notes which is way more practical. I'm pretty sure you have the largest stepper motor rig on all of youtube, as far as I've seen. Not sure how this works, but i'm guessing this is either not the original midi file, or there's some tweaking. What kinds of limits do you have with your rig? Is there a minimum duration it can make a note for, or a minimum amount of time between notes that it's still making noise? I think this song is in the millions of notes, so it'd be interesting to hear how this song worked behind the scenes. I see these motors have trouble with super low notes that appeared in the (Living mice) video, and you adjust it to avoid high notes in this one

[@JonathanKayne]

I would have to figure out how to handle midi ports because this is dependent on channel which has a maximum of 16.
There is some tweaking so that each channel only sees one note at a time. I go into full detail on both my GitHub and project page (in the video description)

[@NotJustVR]

it requires a code that can read midi

[@LennyTheSniper]

smh its the playable version git good
looks like you need to *_STEP_* up your game
jk it's really nice and I hope this gets popular

[@Drunk_Robot]

Awesome!!!!

[@user-yu4zg9sw6j]

It’s just unnatural to see the motors keep going after the sound stops. While the braking may be odd, this video is perfect.

[@wellen1370]

A m a z i n g

[@eclipseeffigy]

Banger 👏

[@jomoho3919]

This sounds like a Soviet home organ

[@joshanderson1019]

Just take a moment to think that that is about $250 in just stepper motors playing rush E
Edit: i did math wrong its more like $400 in stepper motors

[@JonathanKayne]

The project cost about 750

[@real.E]

I just can't stop picturing the crows from monument valley

[@kevinhunkovic9891]

Early crew! Woohoo!!!

[@davidleonard7064]

E e

[@丫o]

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[@quil180]

Puts a new level to impossible by making it mechanical >:)

[@JonathanKayne]

I take my inspiration from Mark Rober. I am terrible at piano, but I am great at making stepper motors play music... which means I am actually great at piano.

[@thereinforcementshavearriv8288]

Nice

[@TheChickennugator88]

🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣🗣💯💯💯💯💯

[@Harcix]

RUSH B!

[@cancaryan]

futuristy hurdy gurdy

[@user-zm9ud2su4e]

ROCK RUSH-E

[@TheBoringFamily]

Rush E Playable From SMB

[@Jake-rn5rt]

A E U E

[@seanconnolly7386]

It's like kraftwerks door bell.

[@PHamster]

Sorry my floppy was seeking the Rush E file

[@丫o]

Nothing to be sorry about, everyone’s floppy was seeking the file

[@DiamondKrafterYt]

Rush SM

[@DiamondKrafterYt]

Aka Rush stepper motor

[@doctor_vit]

Индикаторы БЩУ четвёртого энергоблока в 1:22:
Операторы: 🗿🗿🗿

[@yadrenmolotok]

dark)

[@user-ot4wp4mz6l]

Я согласен на 100%

[@The_Burber]

You need to do music from the portal series

[@martinjacobson3191]

How long did this take to make?

[@JonathanKayne]

The device took about 4 months to develop and this song took about an hour

[@griffinschreiber6867]

When your AI becomes sentient.

[@TuckerFriends]

rush stepper motor

[@TheRealHaXolotl]

sounds like hatsune miku

[@laalpattharkedevata]

It sounds like it's played on floppy drives with infinite head length

[@TantalumPolytope]

Probably because both are stepper motors

[@colinz226]

What do you get when you cross a music kid, a gamer, and an engineering student?
This, this is what you get.

[@JonathanKayne]

I'm not much of a gamer but definitely the other two

[@丫o]

2/3 ain’t bad

[@irgendwerausbayern1999]

I wonder if you can play the SMB1 airship theme from Mario Maker with these...

[@dragonmastergrant]

There were no airships in SMB1.

[@irgendwerausbayern1999]

@@dragonmastergrant I know. The SMB1 airships appeared because of SMM.

[@dragonmastergrant]

@@irgendwerausbayern1999 yes

[@Zeveulesaussure]

E.

[@mikehughesdesigns]

Would it still work with silent drivers?

[@JonathanKayne]

No

[@user-ot4wp4mz6l]

We want to see the wiring on the back!

[@JonathanKayne]

See the project GitHub in the video description

[@user-ot4wp4mz6l]

@@JonathanKayne ok

[@njohn043]

Papers Please be like

[@kingkaza]

Challenge: drink every full rotation is done by a single step motor

[@丫o]

That’s only about 1-1.5 liters of water, assuming 1 ml/rotation, you could knock that out in 2 hours _easy_

[@infernothehedgehog-rl6iz]

*E*

[@thepizzacarpizza1056]

i'm gonna guess the obvious speaker'd notes are because the steppers couldn't spin fast enough?

[@JonathanKayne]

If you are talking about the buzzing then yes. If you try to make the motors spin too fast they will stall and do that

[@thepizzacarpizza1056]

​@@JonathanKayne ahhh
I thought you just had to use a pc speaker for those or something

[@JonathanKayne]

@@thepizzacarpizza1056 nope. All the sound you hear is coming from the motors.

[@丫o]

Who else mentally added in the four keysmashes?

[@Stinkycheese-sy4kt]

why does the main melody sound like an electric guitar.....

[@Draconitron]

How arDOino you do this?

[@JonathanKayne]

Not using an Arduino for this. Using an FPGA.
However, if you did want to do this with an Arduino, it's basically a blink without delay with the blink rate being midi controlled

[@evergreengaming2.053]

Who else came here because SpaceyMan hasn't uploaded for 2 years?

[@JonathanKayne]

Fun fact: the setup he uses is based on the prototype (version 1) of my setup. You can't see it in his videos but the 3D print holding the motors together has a JZK (my initials) embossed onto it.

[@evergreengaming2.053]

@@JonathanKayne Ohhhhh interesting.

[@EDDY-to2hf]

Was this rushed

[@arson44thefox94]

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[@TheBoringFamily]

Optical Illusion?

[@SirNobleIZH]

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[@emilyaezizova5813]

015

[@TheBoringFamily]

015 is not here

[@erinlyons4226]

Can you just ***STEP*** up your motor speed?

[@elistorms8022]

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[@JonathanKayne]

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[@TheBoringFamily]

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[@丫o]

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