Wind Harp by Botronics
January 15th, 2008 by SBBill and Mark Sherman are prolific bot builders who we are lucky enough to have compete at RoboGames.
They just sent me their latest project, a Wind Harp in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had never heard of a wind harp before, it’s a neat concept. They keep tweaking theirs with things like solar powered preamps and are thinking of experimenting with multiples strings and pickups.
Everything looks like it came from Home Depot or Radio Shack, which is my favorite sort of project!
Aside from being a cool project, the Wind Harp is really, really nice to listen to, especially if you need a bit of relaxation background noise.
It’s intentional/accidental cutting-edge ambient music. They should have a bin for this at Amoeba (actually, they probably do).
Listen to his shoutcast here.
Botronics is also a finalist for the 2008 Instructables and Universal Laser Cutter Contest! We wish them all sorts of luck, and also pity them for the number of calls they are going to get from friends asking to use their new laser cutter.
January 16th, 2008 at 6:51 am
You can view and vote for my Instructable at:
http://www.instructables.com/forum/botronics—Universal-Laser-Cutter-Finalist/
January 17th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Instructables are using really funny characters in their links. Between the “botronics” and “Universal” is an extra long dash. Its translates to something that won’t load the same in a browser. I can’t find that character on my keyboard. It checked it again today and now they have a “—”. That works better. So below is the real link to my Instructable. Maybe they are sending secret messages.
http://www.instructables.com/forum/botronics—Universal-Laser-Cutter-Finalist/
January 18th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Ok something is really strange. When I “copy and paste” my link to this forum, the funny looking “- – -” between “botronics” and “Universal” turns into a long “dash” after it is posted and when you click on the link, it becomes “%E2%80%94″, which instructables does not understand. I’m sure it has something to do with Microsoft.