KALIMBOT - A musical robot that plays the Kalimba

Project on Devpost

Inspiration

Build a remote controlled musical robot that plays an instrument built for humans.

What it does

The robot plays a Kalimba using 5 actuated motors/servos. It can play human input live and MIDI files.

How we built it

Bought a Kalimba, wrote code to actuate the motors

Challenges we ran into

Hardware, especially motor boards, Bluetooth MIDI RX callbacks, Latency

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It works!!, live MIDI to Serial, Remote control through WIFI

What we learned

Arduino, C++, Python, Laser cutting, working with motors/servos/steppers

What's next for Kalimbot

add random note generator, add motors for full chromatic scale (12 semitones)