Solderless Robot Toy Xylophone

Eight 12 V solenoids on a printed bridge play a toy xylophone from live USB MIDI or stored MIDI files, with no soldering at all · 5 parts · 6 steps · By Liz Clark (Adafruit)

Gather the parts
Print the mounts
Mount the solenoids
Mount the electronics and assemble
Wire it without soldering
Load the code and play

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Solderless Robot Toy Xylophone

By Liz Clark (Adafruit) · Example build · 7 views · 0 remixes

Eight 12 V solenoids on a printed bridge play a toy xylophone from live USB MIDI or stored MIDI files, with no soldering at all

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Estimated parts cost

2 of 5 parts priced

Difficulty

Easy

Parts

5 parts · 12 pcs

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