Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Lego Bionicles star in Arduino-powered synth band

Bionciles

When Italian sound designer and music producer Giuseppe Acito set about launching his new blog -- Factory Sonico -- he had twenty years of industry experience to draw on. Rather than producing a standard musical showpiece to show off his skills, Acito built himself his own band.


Using Lego Bionicle heroes, Acito rigged the pint-sized figures up to an iPad running a MIDI sequencing app Clavia NordBeat, whose notes are converted into electrical impulses by an Arduino Uno unit. A series of motors then animate the Toa Mata Band, causing them to strike drum pads, xylophone keys, a Gakken analogue synthesiser, and even a Nintendo DS.


By: David Cornish, Edited by: Ian Steadman


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/12/lego-bionicles-band

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