"Fireflies" (Owl City) - Played on 24 Stepper Motors

"I'd like to make myself believe... that stepper motors, step, slowly.
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake when I'm asleep,
'Cause FPGA's never as they seem..."

"Fireflies" is from Owl City.

Produced By: Jonathan Kayne and Lumelle Music
Built and funded by the Virginia Tech Autonomous Mastery Prototyping (AMP) Lab.

This musical instrument uses a DE0-nano FPGA (Cyclone IV), Custom PCBs, A4988 Stepper Drivers and NEMA-17 Bipolar Stepper Motors to turn MIDI into 8 tracks of 4 volume levels.

LINKS:

Official Project Page:
https://sites.google.com/a/vt.edu/amp_lab/projects/stepper-synth-v2

Virginia Tech AMP Lab:
https://sites.google.com/a/vt.edu/amp_lab/home

MIDI and Project Files:
https://github.com/jzkmath/MIDI-Stepper-Synth-V2

Original MIDI file by BLKPF11 on MuseScore:
https://musescore.com/user/5970991/scores/5374355

Jonathan Kayne
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonathanzkayne
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathanzkayne/

Lumelle Music
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lumellemusic/
BandCamp: https://lumelle.bandcamp.com/releases

Видео "Fireflies" (Owl City) - Played on 24 Stepper Motors канала Jonathan Kayne