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cymatics / Chladni plate experiments

Finally I had an opportunity to play around with this cool stuff! Silvia and I built this Chladni plate from a blown speaker and some recycled components. We were inspired by this instructable. I used Processing to make a simple sine wave generator with volume, coarse and fine frequency control.

Chladni plate

laser cutter on its way!

my first slice of home laser cutting action! Here is the x and y axis ready to be installed. The motors and controllers are done, the laser is on its way – watch this space!

laser cutter motor axis

pcbs arrived!

My pcbs for the rainbow solar disco balls arrived!

pcbs

Harmonograph simulator

I was inspired to make a harmonograph simulator by reading the book “Harmonograph” by Anthony Ashton. You can play with the settings and see what different harmonies look like when visualised on a 2D plane. Click the image to have a go!

harmonographix app

I wrote the simulator with processing, an easy to use programming front end to java. You can download the source code from the applet page.

virtual graffiti instructable / howto

I’ve finished the first version of the virtual graffiti system, which is now fully published (including all code) on the instructables website.

We ran a demo at the blue hut youth club on Thursday where it was very well received!
demo at blue hut youth club