How about letting your credit cards sing a note or two?

With each passing day our technology is doing a lot more for us than just do the basic stuff. Multi-tasking is the flavor of the day and that could mean even the most ridiculous stuff; it just does not matter what it is as along as it is different. It is the wacky and the crazy that actually attract more attention and rightfully so. So here is another little electronic marvel that allows you to play music at your will. It may be the same repetitive monotonous boring tone, but it is something. That is right; the next big music album might just be a combination of these meaningless digital tones. This is what is possible with the new Brockenspiel, a project by Brock Craft. It reads the magnetic strip on credit cards and swipe access cards and zips them through an Arduino board and triggers solenoids which bash the chimes. There's no real logic to the music that comes out of this machine. The numbers 1-8 trigger chimes, 0 and 9 are rests.

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The inventor of this strange gadget is pretty sure that it will catch on and he has it installed at his work place for the past six months. Considering that many people do not own loads of credit cards, you will not get many tunes. Moreover meaningless music might not be a big hit either. Anyway full props for the idea though.

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