Arduino-controlled Recorder Music!

What Inspired You to Make This?

I made this as an entry in the music category in Robogames. I wanted to do something music-related that wasn't just a simple percussion-based contraption. I remembered I had a recorder at home, which was a recorder I had from elementary school. I was never really good at playing a recorder, so I thought it would be cool if I could make something to play the recorder for me. I remembered seeing at least one video before that featured a recorder playing machine, so I knew it would be possible. I initially wanted to create something that would cover each of the holes of a recorder to play it properly, but I couldn't exactly figure out how to do that, and I was pressed on time, so what I ended up doing was buying a whole bunch of recorders, precovering the holes of each recorder to represent one specific note, and then hook up an air pump to each recorder to blow air into it. It ended up being easier to make music out of that, despite being considerably more expensive. By the time when Maker Faire starts, I hope to maybe get around to trying my original idea of having one self-playing recorder, or at least make my current recorder contraption look a bit nicer.