DIY Self Playing Kalimba

3D Printer (generic)

Hook Up Wire Kit, 22 AWG

Arduino Mega 2560

SG90 Micro-servo motor

<p >I love Avatar the Last Airbender and wanted to create something that could play the music from it, but live. The instrument used in the main song, Avatar's Love, is a Kalimba. I looked online but did not find any examples of other people creating self playing Kalimbas, so I designed and created my own.</p><p ><span >Here is the</span><a href="https://youtu.be/paN_P0rVHSU"> </a><span >full video explaining how everything was made.</span></p><div class="se-component se-video-container __se__float-none" contenteditable="false" style="width: 100%;"><figure style="width: 100%; height: 56.25%; padding-bottom: 56.25%; margin: 0px;"><iframe frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/paN_P0rVHSU" data-proportion="true" data-percentage="100%,56.25%" data-size="100%,56.25%" data-align="none" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;" data-index="0" data-file-size="0" data-origin="100%,56.25%"></iframe></figure></div><p ><br ></br></p>

DIY Self Playing Kalimba

A custom, 3D-printed linear actuator based mechanism that plays a kalimba according to programmed Arduino code.