Arduinophone (the programmable robotic bell playing xylophone doorbell.

Jeff Levine, a member of the Baltimore Node hackerspace: I decided I wanted to try to play around with an Arduino board, so I got one along with a stepper & a servo. I didn’t really have any specific project in mind at first, other than maybe something musical, and this is what I came up with for my first project that I wanted to keep very simple with only some basic stepper/servo controlling. I just started lasercutting some parts – servo drives the rack & slide / stepper strikes the xylophone bells. Again, my first Arduino project, just playing around so please don’t be mean with your comments. I’m thinking about hooking it up to my doorbell, so I can change the tune when somebody rings anytime I want (and, yes, I do have too much time on my hands). For kids, though, I think it would be a good fun educational robotics project