Read this first, then open the attachment, and watch. KIDS will like this a lot! This is almost unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in catcher cones. This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at theUniversity of Iowa . Amazingly, 97% of the machine's components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft ,Iowa . Yes, farm equipment! It took the team a combined 13,029 hours (6.26 years) of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video but as you can see, it was WELL worth the effort. It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian. --
Thanks Heidemarie
Not a real machine. It is computer animation. See http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/musicmachine.asp
ReplyDeleteReal or not, it's still a fascinating concept and I enjoyed it!
ReplyDeletethis is fake, but it IS really cool, you can tell it is animated
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