Piattuino Plate Robot

Hexfet Transistor IRL 520

Arduino Mega 2560

Soldering iron (generic)

Solenoid Magnet JF-1039B

<p >Some years ago, we made a travel to South America. We have also been in Chile, where we heard someone playing on a special musical instrument. I was fascinated of that instrument and I decided to build also one. Find the right plates, adjust some plates to the right tone in the scale and fixing it on a support, where some problems I had to resolve. After all that work done, the instrument sounds quite well, but for also being a good musician, like the guy from Chile, very much practice is necessary. To do practice every day needs much engagement and this is quite difficult for me, so I chose another way.</p><p >There are piano-robots, why not create a plate-robot? So I decided to give the control of playing the instrument to an Arduino computer and the name Piattuino is a synthesis of the Italian word “piatto” for plate and the well-known Arduino hardware.</p><p >In this video I will show you, how I started this project, I will explain the principal schematics of the Piattuino controller and finally, you can hear some song examples:</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/ZDTKVbnQUo8" 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 ></p>

Piattuino Plate Robot

An Arduino Mega controls a MIDI-data stream to 30 plates equipped with solenoids and lets them playing any sound.