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fatuous looser writes:

Meet Ro-Bow, purportedly a "mechatronic" sculpture. That’s what Seth Goldstein built. He calls it a ‘kinetic sculpture’, but there more than enough electronics and mechatronics to keep even the most discerning tinkerer interested.

There are three main parts of Seth’s violin-playing kinetic sculpture. The first is a bow carriage that draws the bow across the strings using an electromagnet to press the bow against the strings. The individual strings are fingered with four rubber disks, and a tilting mechanism rotates the violin so the desired string is always underneath the bow and mechanical fingers.

1. "fatuous looser" - https://soylentnews.org/~fatuous+looser/
2. "Ro-Bow" - http://hackaday.com/2015/02/26/ro-bow-the-violin-playing-robot/

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