2007  RCA  project  Sketch   

Found on my harddrive somewhere: a small electronics project I did last year. It was an introduction in working with RFID readers and chips and together with Kenichi Okada, I built a small music machine. By placing the different figures on the turning disc, you create a little sound loop with three different sounds. You can adjust the sounds by putting the solenoids on a different surface.
How does it work? The figures have an rfid (radio frequency identification) chip on the bottom, something like an electronic barcode. Under the disc, there's a reader which reads the chips and knows which figure it is. We used two basicstamps: one for the reading and making sounds, the other one for the motor.