Want to play the xylophone but don’t want to learn how? [Rachad]’s automatic xylophone might be just the ticket. It uses homemade solenoids to play tunes under computer control. Think of it as ...

and Twilight. However, the sky’s the limit with these building blocks. The proof is in this fully functional xylophone made entirely from the toy bricks. Andrew Huang is the musician and ...

Miller] applied the standard in his decidedly analog self-playing robotic xylophone. Framed inside a fetching Red Oak enclosure, the 25-key instrument uses individual solenoids for each key ...