Automatizing Percussion with Solenoids: "The

Sound Compass"
Made by touchmysound - Published in Adafruit, Arduino, and SparkFun

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 ABOUT THIS PROJECT

A very simple circuit to activate four timed solenoids for automated percussion: in this case hitting
resonant plastic pipes.
art arte drums music sound

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Difficulty Easy

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 Published September 10, 2017
License CC BY-NC-SA

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THINGS USED IN THIS PROJECT

Hardware components:

Adafruit solenoid 24V 4

SparkFun Resistor 1k ohm 4

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 Diode 1N4004 4

Adafruit Transistor TIP120 4

Breadboard (generic) 1

Power Supply 24V 1

Arduino UNO & Genuino UNO 1

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SCHEMATICS

Four solenoids 24V, schematics Download

Automatize four solenoids with Arduino

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 CODE

"The Sound Compass" Arduino

Example of a short pattern.

1 void setup(){
2 pinMode(2, OUTPUT);
3 pinMode(4, OUTPUT);
4 pinMode(7, OUTPUT);

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 pinMode(7, OUTPUT);
5 pinMode(8, OUTPUT);
6
7 doPerformance();
8 }
9
10 void loop(){
11 }
12
13 void doPerformance(){
14
15 delay(10);
16 digitalWrite(2,HIGH);
17 digitalWrite(4,HIGH);
18 digitalWrite(7,HIGH);
19 digitalWrite(8,HIGH);
20 delay(984);
21 digitalWrite(2,LOW);
22 digitalWrite(4,LOW);
23 digitalWrite(7,LOW);
24 digitalWrite(8,LOW);
25 delay(299);
26 digitalWrite(2,HIGH);
27 delay(740);

CREDITS

touchmysound
Alessandro Perini's artistic production ranges from audiovisual and light-based works to
net-art, land-art and vibration-based works.

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Thanks to jts3k.

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