Category: Mechanical Music

I know I have said this before, and I hate to belabor the point… but I love the web! While digging around on the web for information about the construction of organ pipes I ran across a unique individual who must truly be considered a Mirth Maker Extraordinaire!
Professor Johan Liljencrants mirth making […]

One of the interesting side effects of the digital age in which we live has been the rapid obsolescence of any given data storage format. For instance (not to give my age away, but…) I only recently threw out a stack of old punch cards that I had used in my college years while […]

Wayne Lytle is my hero.
No, really. My hero. Here’s why:
Wayne had an idea that landed completely off the beaten path. Wait, more than idea, almost an obsession from what I can tell. Then again, maybe it was just the isolation resulting from being snowed in all those winter nights at Cornell […]

I was pretty pleased with the results of the animated GIF file in my previous post on this subject. I like the visualization of what is happening with the magnetic fields as the ball approaches the barrel of the solenoid. And a numerical table that I had output confirmed what I had read […]

In the search for mirthful and magical ways to make music, I ran across an interesting article about a small coil gun. The author has written a piece up about making the coil gun using pretty simple components [discovered via the kind folks at Hackaday] which I found most instructive.
This got me thinking about […]

Welcome to Making Mirth!
I’ve spent the last two days getting lots of images ready for this site, and thinking about all the many things that I’d like to blog about. And of course, lots of decisions to be made before even beginning to capture a single real iota of content - things like […]