The creative PHD academic by the name of Alex Allmont combined two of life's greatest things, legos and music. Here he combined the two by having the mechanisms from Lego Technic perform acid house. Alex named the project “Play House” and has turned these legos into an acid music making machine.
“I decided instead to use 2/4 with quarter notes, partly because going from 16 to 8 saves a lot of space and complexity, but also because it would generate a melody that repeats on every other beat, and I found this ideal for the hypnotic music I was producing. The construction is very simple because Lego has a 16-tooth gear, so to make an 8-step sequencer you need a central shaft with 8 of these gears on it and from each gear you drive another 16 tooth gear, each being rotated two teeth on from the last. Each driven gear is 1/8th out of phase with the last, and if you put little tappers under each gear and you have a sequencer that taps out 1/8th notes,” said Alex.
