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Chris Cerrito liked making gadgets and Mike Rosenthal liked to make music. Together, these two graduate students created a team of musical instruments-- things like xylobots and shaky-plates--that all run on solar energy.
Cerrito and Rosenthal introduce their creations and explain the basics of how their solar engines collect and release energy, producing sound. These two aren't counting on solving the energy crisis, but they think holding one of their palm-size musical bots can help bring solar energy home in a new way.
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Chris Cerrito liked making gadgets and Mike Rosenthal liked to make music. Together, these two graduate students created a team of musical instruments-- things like xylobots and shaky-plates--that all run on solar energy.
Cerrito and Rosenthal introduce their creations and explain the basics of how their solar engines collect and release energy, producing sound. These two aren't counting on solving the energy crisis, but they think holding one of their palm-size musical bots can help bring solar energy home in a new way.
Transcript
[Clip: Buzzing sound, rhythmic clinking]
[Clip: CS: Let’s see if I start this guy up, you’ll see it sort of turns on with a pulse, turns off, and that’s it storing the energy, releasing it, storing it, releasing it. And as I move the light closer, you’ll hear the interval becomes much much faster.]
Chris Cerrito has always liked building gadgets, especially ones that could move. On the first day of one his graduate classes in NYU’s interactive technology program he found himself with an assignment: to create a musical instrument.
Mike Rosenthal was also in the room that day. He’d been in high school when he’d been given an old eight track reel to reel. His first reaction had been to try and make music with it.
[Clip: MR: I was living in the garage of my parents house and I just got excited. I was taking all the weird things that were around and throwing them all together. This idea...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:When the sun shines, more and more people are trying to catch some of that renewable energy for our solar grid. In New York City, two students have been devising ways to use sunlight to make some music.
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