RUSH E But its played on Stepper Motors

Not played by a human but...
"RUSH E" is Composed by Andrew Wrangell.

Produced By: Jonathan Kayne
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:

Virginia Tech AMP Lab:

MIDI and Project Files:

Jonathan Kayne

#RushE

[firealarm.]

This is amazing.





(Yo can I get my first pin ever here?)

[kyriozz]

the feel when you 3D print something at night

[PerfectPilot]

My 3d printer when I’m trying to sleep

[craigcorson]

I really respect people who find new ways to blend art and engineering. Bravo!

[zoomane]

This is incredible! It was so weird not hearing the *E*, I'd love to see a video about you coding it

[lifislif]

pov: my ender 3 when i start a print at 2 am

[jackb]

They said humans couldn't do it.... they were right.

[GEV]

How can people dislike this? I can't see anyone stepper motoring like that.

[ham]

sounds like if rush e were a soundtrack for a mechanical level in a game

[the_goood_man]

This video definetely needs more views!

[BunniePancake]

its beautiful in a way. im sure aperture science would approve of these tunes lol

[ardonjr]

This just showed up in my recommendations. And I love it!! How this only has 20k views and 51 comments is beyond me.

[DrKsTsHdW]

If you had 88 stepper motors, do you think they would be able to keep up with putting the actual original midi file? I'm not sure how yours works with less than that obv you have stepper motors doing multiple notes which is way more practical. I'm pretty sure you have the largest stepper motor rig on all of youtube, as far as I've seen. Not sure how this works, but i'm guessing this is either not the original midi file, or there's some tweaking. What kinds of limits do you have with your rig? Is there a minimum duration it can make a note for, or a minimum amount of time between notes that it's still making noise? I think this song is in the millions of notes, so it'd be interesting to hear how this song worked behind the scenes. I see these motors have trouble with super low notes that appeared in the (Living mice) video, and you adjust it to avoid high notes in this one

[NobodyKnows-nc]

It’s just unnatural to see the motors keep going after the sound stops. While the braking may be odd, this video is perfect.

[joshanderson]

Just take a moment to think that that is about $250 in just stepper motors playing rush E
Edit: i did math wrong its more like $400 in stepper motors

[LennyTheSniper]

smh its the playable version git good
looks like you need to *_STEP_* up your game


jk it's really nice and I hope this gets popular

[real.E]

I just can't stop picturing the crows from monument valley

[quil]

Puts a new level to impossible by making it mechanical >:)

[Thepowerof]

It works by spinning the motor in different speeds it will make different make different sounds, that’s how I think how the iPhones vibrate motor works when I first know it

[PHamster]

Sorry my floppy was seeking the Rush E file