One Monday during D&T (our unit’s weekly Drink and Think), Tad noticed CD’s notebook had a doodle that consisted of a bunch of dots. Tad said something along the lines of tukutukutukatukatuk, saying that was what the dots seemed to sound like. The conversation predictably drifted to whether a machine could be made that did that. So we made four!
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The Plaka Reader is a machine for reading paintings as synthesizer scores. An infrared sensor in the tone arm reads patterns of light and dark, translating them into sound.PLAKA READER
reader size, including stand: 20’x20’x40’ (h)
plywood, metal, arduino, IR sensor, speaker
2024