I was browsing around and found some good images of The Pianocktail:
Vimeo video:
A link to a nice pic on the Scientific American web site:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow.cfm?id=grad-school-for-gadgeteer
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Images of The Pianocktail
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010The Pianocktail on Vice’s VBS TV
Monday, August 31st, 2009Check out the Pianocktail (spelled Pianoctail on the video) featured in VBS.tv’s coverage of ITP’s 2008 Winter Show
Servos.
Thursday, April 16th, 2009So this is what servo motors look like inside.
servos will be needed for my artBot.
And this is what a solenoid valve looks like inside:
the valves was used on the Pianocktail.
Pianocktail Video
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Pianocktail PREMIERE!
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Its only a couple of weeks away and the Pianocktail is NOT working yet.
Nevertheless it will work in time for the show. There is no negotiating =)
The Pianocktail has two scheduled shows;
1. Exit Art
475 10th Ave @ 36th ST
New York, NY
Time and Date:
Monday, December 15, 2008
8:00pm - 11:00pm
2. ITP Winter Show
721 Broadway 4th Fl.
New York, NY
Time:
Wednesday, Dec. 17th 2008.
Thursday, Dec. 18th 2008.
5pm-9pm
Pianocktail Progress Report
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
We are making good progress in the Pianocktail. There are 2 more weeks left in the semester and about a month left to do in work. Thankfully we have around 10 or 20 coffee shops around NYU. Can’t wait to take the first sip out of a cocktail mixed by the Pianocktail.
While I write the code, Florica is wiring the circuit together.
As you may see in the pictures there are a bunch of wires that we have to deal with. For every input switch there is a wire and for every output switch there will be 4 wires. There will be 88 input signals and 48 output signals coming and going from the Arduino. This means we have to connect over 280 wires!
What all this means is that we have a lot of wiring to do! Lucky Florica is on it. Oh and did I mention we are re-painting the piano and still need to add the liquid dispensing mechanism?
Pianocktail, Progress Report.
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
We have begun to make modifications on the Piano to allow for the drink mixing mechanism to be installed. We made a bunch of holes on the wood cover flap to use as a bottle holders.
Florica was so exited about starting to add the switches to the keys that she took off all the keys with out mapping where all the keys belonged. Luckly we realized that the keys are numbered in order and eventually we untangled the mess, literary! =)
Mental note: Wires tangle up really easily.
Once we added the metal pieces, that will serve as a switch to the keys, we began the tedious process of putting the keys back on to the piano. Patience played a big part during this assignment.
Finally all keys where in place and we tested out the switches to see if they where working properly.
Surprisingly, they are not working as smoothly as we expected, but its not a big set back since we can adjust the switched to work better.
The most exiting thing about the circuit is that it works!
Now if those solenoid valves and relays get here eventually, we can get started on the liquid dispensing mechanism.