Prototype designs

We have finally narrowed down the instruments to a selected few that can definitely portray the diversity within Sheffield University. And those are the xylophone, acoustic bass, ocarina and bongos. So now for these extra concept designs we have created many many many CAD drawings on Solidworks for prototype testing to see which mechanism is the best.

These are Michael's designs for the hammer for the xylophone keys, a mechanical valve for the ocarina, a magnetic wheel prototype, a wheeling mechanism to control the rhythm of the bongos and a Geneva wheel to play the left hand part for the bass.

These are the parts created by Qiming, which consists of a drum that can be played by using a magnetic force to create sound, a piston which is the most crucial for the ocarina as well as the bass parts, and also a pipe which has a coin tapered at the end with a magnet valve used to pluck the guitar string.

Here are Yue's parts which contain another prototype for the magnetic wheel which will be 3d printed, a mechanism used to simulate the right hand part to play of the bass which could pluck as well as strum and finally a mechanism used to control the chords of the left hand part of the bass guitar.