Robot Slide Whistle Orchestrion
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- Inevitable really.
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00:00 Mii channel
01:22 Talking
02:51 Magic roundabout
03:36 Insides
04:47 All star
07:57 More talking
11:07 da vinci's notebook - Наука та технологія
The servo noise makes a nice rhythm accompaniment
Honestly it works so well with it, I had barely noticed them. 😂 Like I know they are there making noise but it just fits so I paid it no mind haha
Sounds like a hiphop style record scratch sound effect lol
Reminds me of the stepper orchestra
lol quite the opposite I was coming to tell him he should do this with silent servos 😂
@@Thanks-Again I agree with the silent servos or at least mount them in back where we cannot hear them.
How dare you not add more googly eyes
Each slide whistle has two
@@phylliida haven't you read what the cat wrote?
@@phylliidaWE NEED MORE
@phylliida, there are also two on the left middle one
the reading comprehension on this site is piss poor
“At the event, nobody seemed to care that it was out of tune. If anything, it just made it funnier.” Bingo … it’s the whimsical nature of a project like this that makes it pure gold!
You're a monster. You have 4. You could have perfectly done bohemium rhapsody on them and made each of them look like specific queen members. Awesome video none the less.
Because MysteryGuitarMan already perfected this
🎶I see the silouete of a man....🎶
Missed the opportunity to paint the tubes in spiral white and red paint, for a Barber Pole Quartet.
THIS
White washi tape in a helix
With slide whistles of different sizes to get some great harmonies and greater range.
This is as great a crime as failing to name the Jet Ski the Boatercycle.
I take a look at my enormous whistle and my troubles start a-meltin' away!
I see what you did there Naughty Boy
:D
lolol
I take a look at my enormous whistle
And the happy times are coming to stay!
It's not size that matters...
The more I listen to this, the more it sounds perfectly in tune
Yes, but know that anything else you listen to from thereon will sound terrible :)
@@makers_lab The Detunear 2000
LMFAO why did this start happening when I read this comment
That's called Stockholm Syndrome
@@Validole It isn't; maybe Stockhausen Syndrome though :)
You got me at the "Increasingly desperate transistor arrangement."
I feel so bad for the people who had a booth around this one all day long. They had nightmares, I am sure! Clowns and circus tigers with googly eyes chasing them so they can sing them a song or die.
I just attended my daughters 4th grade recorder recital. This is so much better! I was praying that at any moment they were going to play the brown note and we could all go home. Because the effects of the brown note is preferable to an hour of 4th graders playing the recorder.
@@Jonathan.D THE notorious brown note? How did they miss it?
This feels like something you would find in an old amusement museum made by someone in the 1940’s, like those old self playing pianos, well done!!
mr sand man on slide whistles, or any "barbershop quartet" type of music.
Mr Sandman is in his original slide whistle video if you want to see it.
Sand?
Nonono. You want Enter Sandman from Metallica on slidewhistle!
I mean, the last song was a "barbershop quartet" type of music.
Last one was DaVinci's notebook. Look it up if you haven't heard of them, you won't be disappointed!
I'm a bit disappointed I didn't get rickrolled by slidewhistle robots.
Absolutely top tier, as always from mitxela
nice to see you here too
It kinda sounds like those organs you get at fairs that use punched cards for music, and now I want to see a punch card interface for this haha
Like some kind of Magic Roundabout, yeah!
I wonder if anyone makes a piano roll reader that just outputs midi. Easy modular old time music machines!
@@RobertMilesAIeven if not, I can't imagine it'd be a huge project to slap one together
Now I want to do it....
@@alfiegordon9013 I did something similar in 2 projects, a midi organ, and a light sensor that uses a strip, you basically have a row of leds with either phototransistors or photoresistors. since we don't need analog, a pair of SGPT4057/SIR4056 will do the trick. for feeding, a pair of rubber paint rollers works well, and you can either repeat that on the other side, or just have a small slit that's barely larger than the card, with felt on both sides.
you can use an ide cable to connect a 3 octave reader (36 notes, plus ground and power, and 1 pin is nc )
midi is very easy, just serial write on each change (note on/note off).
@@rustycherkas8229 no it's not, a calliope is metal and powered by steam, I mean a book organ
I'm currently researching air regulators for a street organ build. Have you seen the Apfelregal, or Bibelregal? They use a simple weighted bellows to maintain air pressure. Much like your leaky pumps, the two bellows generate MORE than enough wind, and the overpressure is simply exhausted silently, UNLESS enough pipes are speaking to consume all the bellows wind. @MichaelKrzyzaniak 's organ build mentions using a pressure sensor and control of the blowers, but I suspect that isn't the whole story.
you can seet example but look at LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER organ playlist
A pneumatic zener regulator. I’d rather see an adjustable constrictor than an adjustable leak, if just for efficiency’s sake. A pneumatic LDO, if you will.
@@Scrogan i'm only a couple weeks into my research but from what i can tell, organs usually have main regulators to provide pressure, along with spring loaded regulators near to the windchest to provide fast response to pneumatic hammer, which sounds like flutter when a large pipe or chord of pipes is closed suddenly. The resulting step-effect causes a wave in the ductwork if it's not dissipated by a regulator. The way that @mitxela did the valves over the aperture probably doesn't seal tightly enough to cause that issue.
Just use bigger fan, so that the small volume flowing to 4 tiny whistles does not influence pressure as much.
for God's sake, please only use proper bellow systems when building a street organ!
Thank you for your apologies before showing us this wonderful piece
It's always nice to know in advance if I'll be owed an apology by the end of a video
I was expecting more armonica and less calliope.
Best April fool's day ever!
Beethoven was deaf which makes him a great choice for playing something on this instrument.
There are a ton of recalled CPAP machines around right now, and although you need an ESC, you should be able to get really precise flow rates. I'm using them on my 3d printers for part cooling, the flow rates are incredible for the cost.
I want this playing at my funeral
An air pressure capacitor, like in Look Mum No Computer's organ, would help with the blower consistency. If you can figure out how to miniaturize it.
Just to cover it, the church organ has something akin to a bellows, a big box that inflates upward when the fan is on with accordion style walls, and then you put a big weight on it. The fan lifts the weight, and when pipes open they let out air, then if demand for air exceeds the fan's capacity the bellow will begin to deplete. Unless an arrangement is consistently blowing a large number of pipes, this over-demand period will be temporary. A bonus feature of this and all capacitors is that when implemented correctly they filter out higher frequency content in the supply.
One way to miniaturize it may be to use balloons, these would be able to radiate fast spikes out of the air supply, and compensate for low supply
Including the LMNC organ flow capacitor in this is a great idea. Could then get one larger blower to fill it rather than multiple as then the back pressure from the other whistles being off wouldn't affect the ones that are on. Could even put in electrically controlled valves to added 'velocity' to each whistel.
This is very cool. I noticed that, during "All Star", the harmony whistles were drowning out the melody whistle. I wonder if there is a way to selectively dampen the sound of given whistles in cases like this.
the harmony whistles are all playing at the same time
And now I'm picturing a servo-driven Theramin.
I can already hear the soothing vintage scifi movie noises..
During the All Star demo, I was thinking, "this sure could use closed-loop pitch control...but you'd probably have to use a contact mic."
Great minds... I'd be more optimistic regarding the chances of isolating pitch feedback. I'd love to see it attempted, even if you failed. Heck, a failure after an honest attempt would make great click bait.
Keep up the good work!
jesus christ
also "enormous wenis" is peak
I’m surprised more people didn’t notice this
It was an enormously great tune @@skyrimking4098
@@skyrimking4098 I did, immediately. Big Bob and Tom fan.
No need for blasphemy
@@scotth9828no need for your opinion 🤭🤭🤭
It is very reminiscent of the turret orchestra at the end of Portal 2.
Apologies are not enough. Great Job.
edit: I recognize that barbershop tune, cheeky
Those tiny joints are amazing. I can't believe they hold up 👍
i don't know why, but i really like this project. it's fairly complicated, but executed cleanly, and the resulting music is too absurd to be bad. and honestly it's the best type of thing to show off at an expo. brilliant work!
Never thought I'd see googly eyed slide whistles harmonizing to Allstar
OMG, I instantly recognized that last song and FELL ON THE FLOOR! 🤣🤣🤣
What an enormous slide whistle project!
Now we know what a Clanger choir sounds like…
This is beautiful! I'm crying from laughter. I can just see the little flaps shaped like white glove cartoon hands. the googly eyes are necessary! I wonder what it would take to do this with kazoos? Probably just a tone generator and a fan... hmmmmmm.....
The googly eyes really finish out the whole gestalt of it. Bravo!
What an absolutely beautiful/horrendous thing. I love it
I had this video on in the background and I yelled at my wife from across the room "Hey thats Davinci's Notebook!!"
I really appreciate the restraint and taste of not going for the low hanging fruit of never gonna give you up.
Old carousel 🎠 music would work great for those. I love the googly eyes, they’re so fun
Honestly, the slight jank is absolutely part of its charm!
Herbie Hancock"s 'Watermelon Man' 1973 is written for this device.
On the occasional well intoned chord, it's quite lovely. A bellows setup like a pipe organ may well make the erratic motor pressure more workable.
There is some charm in the wild intonation, and I enjoy the percussive record scratches of the servos.
Top work, as ever!
Bob Moog was once interviewed shortly after debuting his synthesizer. The interviewer leaned forward and asked, "Mr. Moog, tell me: don't you feel guilty about what you've done?"
according to los angeles times, "Robert Moog, 71; His Synthesizer Brought New Sounds to Music":
In “Moog,” a recent documentary by director Hans Fjellestad, an interviewer leans toward Moog and sternly asks, “Tell me, Mr. Moog, don’t you feel guilty about what you’ve done?”
If you want your sound to be more tuneable, you could add a balloon or air chamber between your pump and the flute (This would give you some fluidic "capacitance"), thereby making the airflow more constant and easier to handle for the motors ;). Very cool project!
Bag slide pipes.... I love it!
This is wonderful. You win my best application of a microcontroller 2024 award.
What a glorious contraption! And such an excellent choice of Davinci's Notebook
I now really want to hear Mr sandman played on these
I now really want to hear Enter Sandman played on these
About a minute in and my daughter said it sounded like ambulances driving by. 😂
Man, I've been conditioned to expect something like this to sound way better than it looks.
I have to congratulate you for shattering all my expectations today :P
I'm not quite sure how to interpret this (congratulations). Does it mean that this thing looks really good and the sound is at least decent or does it mean that this thing is ugly with correspondingly worse sound? I can see (and hear) cases for either.
I'm a saw player and I love this thing. Marvelous!
I was really enjoying the micro LED series but this is great! I love that you picked the Mii music of all things and how perfect this instrument goes with its sound. 😂🙌
The build quality and overall neatness of the final product is just one of the very impressive features of this project. The little clips to hold on the back plate for instance, this extra attention to detail is great.
Achievement unlocked: Loud and Not So Clear!
Survive the whistle orchestrion dissonance while listening on headphones.
I'm a composer and a music technologist, and oh my god am I gonna have fun with that emulator. Thank you!
This demands a Device Orchestra collab!
Exactly what I was thinking
Or LookMumNoComputer.
@@pileofstuffor both!
Well that was an overblown mess! I loved every minute of it. Thank you mixtela.
the last one fits sooooo well, almost like they made it with intent to play it on this
That's "enormous penis" it's a barbershop quartet song which is probably why.
Only four tones in total.
Excellent, I can see a potential 'Text to Clanger' spin-off in the future.
I love barrel organs and this feels like their fun futuristic descendant. It's really charming
I guess we have reached Peak Civilisation when mankind has enough leisure time to come up with daft, pointless, wonderful, hilarious, fascinating creations like this.
We've been at a peak for a while then because stuff like this has been made for centuries.
compressed air and a regulator might get you a better and more consistent airflow.
You could also size the compressor tank and flow rate to get a more silent back end.
This is a work of art, perfection beautifully silly
I just spat my lunch out when I heard the first notes. This is amazing! I now need to clean the quonia out of my work keyboard and cuibal.
AAA ITS HEREE!!!
Thank you, Mitxela! I was hoping to see more from the slide whistles sooner or later!
You know what would play really nicely on this? The turret song at the end of portal 2. I believe it’s called Cara Mia or something
I can imagene, how much knowlegde You needed for this project: music, MIDI, programming microcontrolers, crafting the mechanic etc. Wow!
This is incredible and wholesome. Just the right mix of electronics and music enthusiast
doofing around on this was one of my favourite things @ EMFCamp last time around. 10/10 contraption
The sliding doesn’t need to be included with every note. Fascinating device!
I love how one slide whistle just smacks the base on those low notes
For this i would be looking for pumps/fans from PCAP ( anti snorinng and hypoxia ) machines, they have good amount of constant presure and are very silent and flow parameters near what human produce, but i don't know how they are priced.
Still Alive?
Perform "Still Alive"!
I guess
Immediately thought this before I clicked on it
08:20 Air bladders might solve your consistent air flow problem. Just use the fans to keep the bladders inflated and now you have robotic bagpipes, essentially.
That's really cool, and the googly-eyes are a nice touch.
UA-cam algo wasn't going to rest until I watched this. I'm not mad. Good work and rock on, you're an Allstar.
To fix the tuning issues, you’ll probably want to add pickups to the whistles, and then have a program that can identify how far off from in tune they are, and then direct the servos to adjust closer to that value.
A combination of what you’re doing now and that, should probably fix your tuning issues.
It’s how musicians actually tune music. We play the note as close as we can initially, and then quickly change to a more correct note.
The googley eyes really seal the deal
Your invention has opened my eyes to the possibility of a brighter future for all of humanity.
You just have to arrange The Frogs' Chorus for this wonderfully genius instrument. Thank you so much for being you and being here! Brilliant! Xxx
this is one of the best things ever created
this is golden. thank you so much
I love the din socket….😂 haven’t soldered one for those for 15 years 😂
Watching this late into the night with lights down low; during the track after the intro, had to check behind me to be sure 'Chucky' wasn't in the room.
Nice machine by the way; love how clean it looks; and the fact that it has a kind of 'twisted' organ grinder sound to it.
Looks a bit of a Heath Robinson solution having four fan motors if you don't mind me saying.
A better solution was invented centuries ago with pipe organs, since they had the same problem of needing enough airflow for each pipe. When you have hundreds of pipes, it isn't practical to power each one separately, so a central reservoir of air is used, called a windchest. One motor (or set of bellows, as it was originally) feeds into the windchest which consists of a fairly airtight box and a heavy concertina lid to keep the pressure constant.
From the windchest, each pipe has it's own air feed which is controlled by a valve for each pipe (connected to the keys, in the case of an organ). Only thing you need with this setup is a windchest with a sufficient volume of air capacity so that it doesn't run out, and a solenoid for each pipe to control the airflow.
No sense reinventing the wheel, my man! Build on the greats and make those whistles sing!
That "Magic Roundabout" theme made me jump out of my skin with delight. I'm Australian, and we used to get that show out here back when I was a lad.
this video has no business bringing me the amount of joy i am getting from it
I can think of no better piece with which to unleash this creation upon the world.
3:16 "NOM NOM NOM COOKIE!!!!"
Awesome build :)
If you decide to do more with this idea, I imagine with 3d printing, pipe, wire, and o-rings you could make your own whistles. Would make it easier to match them, or to make alto or tenor whistles to do different ranges of tones. With a big air pump and some big motors, imagine a 3-meter bass robot slide whistle!
This is most excellent. Works particularly with four-part barbershop type harmonies.
Right before he died, my grand daddy told me "If you take joy in simple things; you will always be happy"
Brother you do not need to apologize, This is amazing.
You did noce finish work on your build and this sounded much better than I was expecting. You have my approval
That is just fabulous! Thank you so much for your musical 'creation'.
Brings to mind the architect Edwin Lutyens comment on Simal "Ones first thought is that the monkeys must have built it. Then you think what clever monkeys they must be shot in case they do it again" Brilliant.
This is amazing!
OutFreekinStanding! I love this! Thanks for sharing.
For some reason this makes me want to buy "Snakes In A Can"
The ingenuity & craftsmanship that went into your incredible art piece reminds me of a gigantic, antique, animated contraption that I once saw as a child. I can’t remember where I saw it (a museum?), but I believe it was an elaborate “Cuckoo” clock, for lack of a better term. Every hour, the music started, and multiple miniature Bavarian (or Medieval?) characters would come out, start dancing, etc. I can’t even imagine how many gears and mechanical linkages were involved in putting on this elaborate show.
It also reminds me of a live action “Animusic” video. It would be really cool to keep refining this, or adding to it. Maybe even collaborate with the guy who made a robotic guitar picking machine that I also saw on UA-cam. Eventually, you could put together an entire mechanical orchestra. Anyway, thank you for sharing this, it’s awesome just the way it is. It definitely made my day.
This is amazing. As a slide whistle enthusiast, I now feel I must make something in this vein.