Printed Piece: Recorder Mouthpiece with Screw Threading
Purpose of Print: ENGR100 Section 760 Final Project - Automated Pan Flute
The project that I'm working on and close to completing is an automated pan flute. My team and I designed a pan flute that will play using solenoid valves, an air compressor, and the 3D printed mouthpieces attached to pvc pipes of different lengths for each note. We are trying to play the Wii Shop theme from the Nintendo consoles and capture the original light and happy feeling that it brings to people who are familiar with it.
Pan flute prototype in the works
I added a quarter inch diameter threaded male connector to the end of a recorder mouthpiece file that a professor provided to me so that we could screw it into the output end of a solenoid valve. So far, we've managed to play the song decently well and just need to adjust some of our code on an Aruino and the lengths of the pipes.