http://hackaday.com/2013/12/13/portable-musical-stairs/
[Amir] recently finished a pretty cool project — Portable Musical Stairs! He designed and built it so it could be temporarily installed in schools for musical therapy sessions with autistic children — a fun activity for all ages!
The system utilizes lasers and photo sensors that come with a built in digital output with a sensitivity potentiometer, which makes it super easy for the Arduino Leonardo to interpret. The reason they are using 2 by 4′s for the system is because of the width of the stairs. At 1.75m across, a laser misaligned by only 1 degree results in it … Read the rest
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