Learn to manufacture your own solenoids and then use them to play the xylophone by watching the tutorial video after the break. [Humberto Evans] and the team at Nerd Kits do a great job of not ...

Miller] applied the standard in his decidedly analog self-playing robotic xylophone. Framed inside a fetching Red Oak enclosure, the 25-key instrument uses individual solenoids for each key ...

and Twilight. However, the sky’s the limit with these building blocks. The proof is in this fully functional xylophone made entirely from the toy bricks. Andrew Huang is the musician and ...