Fire Alarm Companies: One-of-a-kind Gravity Harp features robotic pendulums

Monday, December 26, 2011

One-of-a-kind Gravity Harp features robotic pendulums

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The harp can play pre-programmed or live melodies by using control software written in Pyt...

This means half clock harp music is the creation of the company's New York-based interactive design, study models. Nicknamed "The Harp of gravity" which was commissioned by the Icelandic musician Björk on her recent tour of biophilia. The innovative robot has four clocks, each housing a harp string of eleven. Hanging 20 feet above the ground, the pendulum slowly back and forth, while communication with a control computer via an RS485 network. In order to maintain a sequence of notes, each pendulum or 90 degrees out of phase with its neighbor and is controlled by a motor connected to the top ... Continue reading clocks a gravity-type features robotic Harp

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