ITP students Hana, Ania, and Greg built this augmented xylophone, the multixylophoniomnibus. Despite having a basically unpronounceable name, the project looks nice and they have a very in-depth review of the process that they went through in order to produce a working product. Nice job!
They also have a large number of photos available in their Flickr photo set.
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Thanks for writing about the MXO! Our blog post with the full write-up of the design and construction process is here: http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2009/11/the_multixylophoniomnibus.html
Also, the name's not unpronounceable, you've just got to break it down: multi-xylophone-eee-omnibus.
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How'd they get the rattle effect? Do those boxes have some sort of use? A little confused, but intrigued.
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