WabitronicsRory Nugent’s wonderful Solar Xylophone uses the sun to make music outdoors. The result is a peaceful release of musical notes that’s always different, written by the sun and edited by the dappling of that sunlight through the trees.
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Solar Xylophone
Rory Nugent’s wonderful Solar Xylophone uses the sun to make music outdoors. It uses eight different chime tubes that are struck with electrically-actuated mallets that are charged by solar panels. The tune is randomized, similar to wind chimes, because each mallet charges up at a slightly different rate, dependent on the amount of sun playing across each solar panel. Rory and I were classmates in graduate school, so I got to see his design develop in person, back in the day.
https://purl.org/rzr#
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