Schlagwort: Music Box

  • This dad’s button game box keeps the kiddo entertained

    This dad’s button game box keeps the kiddo entertained

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    This dad’s button game box keeps the kiddo entertained

    Arduino Team — December 7th, 2020

    Yuval Tsur made this excellent game box comprised of four oversized LED-lit arcade buttons, as a gift to his son to celebrate the arrival of his little brother.

    The box features both Simon and a reaction game where you must quickly press the button that lights up. In addition to gaming, the device can play the Super Mario Brothers theme, or react with light and sound to button presses in free play (or “baby brother”) mode.

    Controlled by an Arduino Nano, the rest of electronics include an LCD display interface and a pair of 5W, 4? speakers. The project is constructed out of acrylic top and bottom faces — fastened together using long standoffs for extra strength — and MDF sidewalls decorated with printed paper.

    More details on the music and game box can be found in Tsur’s write-up. From the looks of the video below, his son loved it!

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSzkWiln1L0?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281]

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  • Stuffed animal gets its own music/AV box

    Stuffed animal gets its own music/AV box

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    Stuffed animal gets its own music/AV box

    Arduino Team — June 14th, 2020

    Er13k was inspired to create an Arduino music box to go along with his girlfriend’s giant stuffed dog Tobias. This eventually morphed into something that not only plays songs on its own speaker, but also lights up a 3D-printed keyboard with LEDs. Perhaps its coolest feature, though, is that it includes an RCA output jack to show a cartoon representation of the plush toy on a CRT television.

    When the AV output is active, the device pushes tunes through the TV’s speaker and displays 95×95 pixel drawings and simple animations. 

    You can see it demonstrated in the video below, as well as some of the build process. On his “channel,” Tobias gets hungry, makes a drawing, and… becomes quite unsatisfied with his job.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1upAoCYbBFw?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281]

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  • Make music with the help of an Arduino-powered hole puncher

    Make music with the help of an Arduino-powered hole puncher

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    Make music with the help of an Arduino-powered hole puncher

    Arduino Team — November 25th, 2019

    Maker ‘pashiran’ purchased a music box which could be programmed with punch cards, but soon found that actually creating tunes this way by hand was exhausting. His solution was to automate the process, designing a fixture to punch the cards for him!

    His new auto-programmer acts as a simple CNC machine, using stepper motors to roll cards into place and then move the punch head perpendicular to this motion to produce the correct note. The holes are punched out over and over with a DC motor, before being removed to play a beautiful tune on the mechanical music box. Computing power is provided by an Arduino Mega, while the user interface consists of an LCD display and an encoder. 

    You can listen to 250 notes worth of “Be Our Guest” below, plus find more details on the project here.

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lov9hmhkNws?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281]

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