Revolve Press Release

Here is the video of Revolve in action.

PRESS RELEASE

Revolve takes sound interaction and musical creativity to a new level of simplicity, you simply punch holes into a sheet of paper to create your own personally made 8 bit tunes. The idea is simple, you have a wind up motor which spins a central point on a turntable. Along this turntable you have multiple LDR’s all programmed to produce different pitches of sound depending on which LDR’s are visible and which are covered. You take your piece of paper and punch holes according to which pitch of note you would like to play then attach it to the turntable simply by putting a magnet in the centre of the paper, which attaches to the central point which is spinning.
The idea for Revolve started by having lots of LDR’s which would all have an individual pitch of note. We then looked into record players and gramophones and thought it would be good if we could somehow incorporate the two ideas into one. Rather than covering the LDR’s with your finger to make them play we used disk’s of paper (which came from the idea of vinyl’s spinning) then by punching holes in the paper, when these holes are over the LDR the resistance changes which we used to trigger a beat.

Final Finished Product Images

Final working product images.  Fairly happy with it.  Looking pretty good.  It's been a long hard slog.

Revolve in action

1ST Test.  Working!!!!  YAAAAASSSSS!!!

AMAZING 8-BIT MUSIC AND VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbfCZx1tRUs

Getting the electronics inside

Struggling to get all the electronics inside.  ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

Blasted electronics

Electronics are being a nightmare.  So many wires....

Revolve in action

Finished!!

Just back from spray factory.  Looking good.  A few small blemishes here and there, but it's a learning curve.  Only the electronics to go!!!

About to take the Turntable down to the spray factory

Should get it back for Monday.  Hopefully it will be £35 well spent.

Amplifiers are in. WOOHOO!!!

Finally got the amplifier.  Just needs to be wired into the breadboard.

Some filler for the gaps

Just some filler and lots of elbow grease today.  Progressing nicely

So far so good

Pen part is the perfect fit

Fits like a glove.  It was meant to be.

Useful pen

Needing a stock for the rotating part.  Pen is mightier than....?

Base and Sanding

Cut the base and sanding everything down this morning.

Well Clamped

With both pieces clamped and gluing.............Thats me finished for another day.

A few holes later...

....and the motor is on.

Motoring on...

The Motor will sit underneath the electronics inside the milled out cylander. 

Milling away

A Better close up view of the milling machine at work.

Gettin jiggy with it!!

Made a jig for the "Cake Tin" to sit in so I can rotate it on the milling machine to hollow it out.

One day on...

All laminated together and sanded.  Starting to take shape.

Things really progressing

All laminated.

Pressing on with the build.

Laminating the curve shapes together to get the top piece constructed.

Engineering Foam "cake tin" will house the electronics.