Homemade Robotic Xylophone Plays Holiday Melodies

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Posted by timothy on Monday December 06, 2010 @06:04AM from the percussion-from-a-distance dept.

compumike writes "Just in time to add a bit of geeky holiday cheer to your office, this video demonstrates how to build a robotic xylophone featuring handmade solenoids and aluminum bars, and shows it playing several classic holiday tunes. New songs can be programmed in with C macros, and this project could even be extended to perhaps play a melody when a new e-mail arrived or a software build has finished compiling!"

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Re:Now... (Score:4, Funny)

by MrQuacker ( 1938262 ) writes: on Monday December 06, 2010 @06:17AM (#34458172)

Found it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHcV8vZ96OM [youtube.com]
Wasn't this on /. a few years ago?

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Re:What a bunch of nerds. (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday December 06, 2010 @07:33AM (#34458412)

Yeah! They could have bought all the other parts too! In fact, they could have not bought or built anything and just fucking googled jingle bells on youtube, stupid fuckers!

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