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Things made by Swoomptheeng for the Maker Monday Commission. Visit our 3D website -&- Be our friend on Facebook

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HOW 2 MåKE ª BaGPịPE !

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Screenshot from the Unity game you can play used in the exhibition

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Final pipedesign ready for the electrics

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Punkah rockin out on a newer prototype

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Koldm00n tries out our life jacket

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Using Resolume VJ software we created a music video mixed on the fly from our MAC workshop footage!

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After some trials, we decided that handcutting the horn former would produce a quicker and larger former. Here’s some pics of Swoomptheeng’s PUNKAH going to work on it. Images are work in progress

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Unity! We now have our instrument talking to the games engine via MIDI. Would an offshoot Xbox game be so much extra work? What you see here is an interactive game not an animation!

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MIDI over Bluetooth

Yeah! Well we actually have MIDI over Bluetooth working now, which is great as we can make the bagpipe wireless and battery operated!

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Cutting Foam at FabLab

So we went to the Fab Lab at Sandwell Collage (in the old The Public building) and met Anne Scrimshaw who showed us their 3D printers, 3D scanner and CNC computerised cutting machine. http://www.sandwell.ac.uk/news/fab-lab-launches/.

The main reason for this was to establish a procedure for cutting our foam to make a former for the fiber glass horn section, so we’ll be returning when it’s arrived and we have a 3D model to cut it to. We may also use the CNC machine to cut our mold for the rubber squeezy section.

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Swoomp Tartan - on order as a textile now!

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Faceted horn design

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ePipes are the electronic bagpipe specialists.

There are loads of people using MIDI bagpipes!

ePipes are a great supplier of authentic digital MIDI pipes

http://www.vpipes.com and http://www.deger.com also offer commecial MIDI bagpipes

Here’s a demo of a homemade arduino pipe using Open pipe which is a comprehensive arduino based pipe kit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAaO6Qmyh9A

Universal Piper is a virtual bagpipe VST http://www.universal-piper.com/Universal_Piper_-_The_bagpipe_Lab.html

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Smaller version of the bagpipe build with less ambitious shapes to engineer

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Skuulleyes has a gallery visit to examine the public’s bagpipes

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GIFs from the bagpipes made in the workshop