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Ashley John Pigford
Professor
Department of Art & Design
+ Affiliated Faculty in
Fashion & Apparel Studies
@ University of Delaware

design@udel.edu

Knock Knock Sonic Joke Machine

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This interactive sonic/kinetic sculpture is activated by a participant pressing the door bell switch which initiates the performance of a ‘sonic knock-knock joke’.


This piece consists of 9 wooden “boos” (hollow wooden boxes each with a tongue cut into the open end to create different pitches), electromagnets salvaged from traditional door bells, a computer power supply, mosfets to switch the power to the magnets, a microcontroller and a door bell switch.



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