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May 3, 2017

Robotic glockenspiel and hacked HDD’S make music

by Larra Morris

[bd594] likes to make strange objects. This time it’s a robotic glockenspiel and hacked HDD‘s…

He has incorporated his robotic glockenspiel with a hacked hard drive rhythm section to play audio controlled via a PIC 16F84A microcontroller. The song choice is Axel-F.

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