Sound project

Last week I made a device that was intended to make a noise. It started with a weight being let go that was attached to a tripod. The weight had been spun around many times to that in order for it to reach the ground it had to spin around to unwind the tieline, while it unwound it scratched into a wiffle ball bat and make a fun noise. Once it reached the ground it fell into a mouse trap that released a coffee can filled with bottle caps that rolled down a ramp and set of another mouse trap loaded with ping pong balls which would fly everywhere.


With my first sound creating project I sort of set out to create a rube gold-berg device. What interested my was a series of events that triggered each other and where designed to create a specific outcome. Something else I was trying to achieve was a sense of anticipation as the weight slowly lowered to the ground. We all knew that it would eventually hit a mouse trap, and the rest of the machine would *snap* into action doing god knows what with the ping pong balls.

The weight ended up going down too quickly and the effect wasn't terribly successful as I would have wanted, however I was interested in how my machine interacted with gravity. Or was completely put into motion because of gravity.

I'm looking out to make a machine that makes a mark using roughly the same Idea. Using a tripod and a wight as a pendulum with some sort of marking device on the bottom. Either a marker or even a sharp implement that will scratch whatever in on the ground.

gravity

I could try the same thing but in the entrance way of the gym from the second floor. The weight would move for a lot longer. If I did this I would probably use a marker.