Upright Laser Harp
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
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Laser harps are musical devices with laser beam "strings." When the beam is blocked, a note is played by the instrument. Usually laser harps have the beams travel vertically in the shape of a fan or vertical lines.
In this project, I built a laser harp with stacked laser beams that propagate horizontally. The beams reflect off mirrors to form square shaped beam paths. Instead of a MIDI output like my previous laser harp, this device has built-in MIDI player so the output is an audio signal. This means the device does not have to be connected to a computer or MIDI player (e.g. keyboard) to play sound. Both built-in speakers an audio output jack are available for playing music.
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This the kind of projects that you want to build yourself when you see them. You rock!
That's without a doubt one of the Most Well Made videos I have seen in a long time!
Excellent job!
Really keep at it, I would love to see more of your project!!
Excellent project. Love it.
Wow very creative and meticulous! Congratulations and thanks for sharing
Very cool!
This is absolutely fantastic!
Kudos!
it would be interesting to see the beams laid out side-by-side in a row, in the same pattern as a piano keyboard.
imagine what that would do for a player with arthritis or carpal tunnel.
since no downward pressure is required to key a note, such a person could play as he did before, but with a minimum of effort.
That is such a great idea!
awesome
The musical tempo is rough, having to move fingers inches to strike a note at a precise time makes this happen. A palm rest so fingers not hands move might help. Mostly though zero tactical feedback makes these "harps" hard to play. Having the sides to play works in an accordion because you can rest fingers on the buttons without having to see them. Purdue did some experiments with gloves and feedback devices in the fingertips for a laser harp. Still you can't rest on a string and pluck in time.
Fanrific!
Let a cat play it!
You are a very talented individual, I am very impressed.Have you considered producing a kit for the wood parts? Could this be adapted for 3-D printing?
Is that your own piece of music? It's really nice, especially when played on that amazing instrument! I remember seeing Jean-Michel Jarre using a vertical one as a child and being fascinated. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks! Yep, it is an original song.
Nice work. The topics of your videos are intelligent and your audio and camera work are of high quality. 9 likes and 1 dislike on this video (at the time of writing this) is too harsh
Also, I liked the tune you played at the start. Where is it from?
Thanks for your support! It is an original song that I wrote on the laser harp.
@@jbumstead21 Wow, cool :)
Badass
Very cool! You said 20 instruments here, it says 16 on the Hackday.io writeup. Are only 16 of them selectable then? (I mean either is impressive of course)
Thanks for catching that! It is only 16 instruments, but that is not limited by the Arduino and music shield. There are over 100 options for instruments on the VS1053 chip. I think there is probably enough memory on the mega to store all those instrument codes if you wanted.
@@jbumstead21 Neat, thanks for clarifying!
Que fantástico, você é do Brasil? De onde você é?
Prazer, me chamo Marcelo, do Brasil
Great work! Do you plan to share the f360 files and other links to the hardware? 🎵🎶
I am planning on sharing the files, but I am still getting everything organized. I will post them on Hackaday and instructables soon.
@@jbumstead21 awesome!
Great video and all, I’ve got the components in front of me, how the heck do you wire the thing? Is there a second video I missed? I want to play lasers!
Here is a link to the instructable with a schematic for connecting all the electronics: www.instructables.com/id/Upright-Laser-Harp/
Thank you! I’ll see if I can’t get it through that! (This’ll be my first Arduino project)
jbumstead I am so unqualified to be questioning this thing but I’ll give it my best shot. I really would like this project for our lab! (It’ll be great for tours) I’m having trouble getting the motor to rotate and the Hall effect sensor to output anything while I move a magnet over it. Is there anything not mentioned in your schematics that I can take a look at?