Steam Punk Organ

For you delectation and delight!

A boon for every music room!!

The Steam Punk Organ is a musical instrument which is made from:-

• Infra-red Distance Sensors
• Potentiometers for the dials
• Micro Servos
• Reclaimed Wood
• Arduino
• A reused Computer with a Free Software operating system
• Laser Cut MDF & Humbrol Paint

• Creative Commons sound samples from FreeSound
• Audacity to re pitch the samples
• Python and Arduino Free Sofware programming languages
• Pygame, python-firmata and firmata libraries

• Our python code which can be got from www.github.com/AccessSpace/SteamPunkOrgan/
• It uses the firmata protocol to talk to the Arduino which is just being a USB I/O box
• The bug list etc. is at www.github.com/AccessSpace/SteamPunkOrgan/

It was originally put together for lovebytes as the “Magnificent Interactive Electromagnetic Spectrum Organ”.

The bug list etc. is at www.github.com/AccessSpace/SteamPunkOrgan/

Dependencies:

• https://github.com/lupeke/python-firmata
• http://pygame.org/
• Arduino loaded with the example sketch 'Firmata → OldStandardFirmata' on /dev/ttyUSB0
• Hardware specs and wiring diagram to come

The sounds are all from the freesound project and are licensed under Creative Commons CA so we can use them

• S: steam_burst.wav by pengo_au – http://www.freesound.org/people/pengo_au/sounds/90143/
• S: steam.wav by Nummer39 – http://www.freesound.org/people/Nummer39/sounds/69299/
• P: Pipe Hiss by DJ Chronos – http://www.freesound.org/people/DJ%20Chronos/packs/8152/
• S: steam-whistle 04.wav by klankbeeld – http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/130670/
• P: SteamPipe Multisample 3 GhostBlow by Jovica – http://www.freesound.org/people/Jovica/packs/340/
• S: ORGAN-BRASS END IN G 001.wav by sandyrb – http://www.freesound.org/people/sandyrb/sounds/85894/
• S: BRASS END IN A 001.wav by sandyrb – http://www.freesound.org/people/sandyrb/sounds/85892/
• S: Accordion C major chord.wav by juskiddink – http://www.freesound.org/people/juskiddink/sounds/120689/