Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Robotic Bagpipe Chanter

Location:   Expo Hall  111   


A Scottish bagpipe chanter gets computerized, resulting in a unique robotic instrument. Air pressure is created using three bicycle pumps, notes are played using eight electromagnetic fingers. The controlling computer can play anything from "Highland Cathedral" to "Star Wars".

Web site: http://neil.fraser.name/hardware/chanter/

Project photo.

About the Maker(s)

Neil Fraser Neil Fraser [
Neil Fraser is a software engineer at Google. In his spare time he builds unusual hardware and writes open source software.
http://neil.fraser.name/