Metal Lungies

The Love Song Machine is a web app that lets you compose a song using eight notes. Then it plays your song. IN THE REAL WORLD. After you make your song, you can watch a live stream of it playing on a set of bells in their Rhode Island office.  Technical explanation:

The bells are played by a series of solenoids, which are controlled by an Arduino micro-controller. The notes that you submit are processed on our web servers and then sent to the Arduino, while we load up live video and audio so that you can watch your song play. If there are users ahead of you in line, the queuing system will let you know how long you’ve got before you can watch your song.

I got them to wave at me by naming my song “ACKNOWLEDGE ME.” I put together a quick rendition of the James Bond theme and now I’m trying to do “Mass Appeal.” Now I know how my high school English teacher felt when he found out he could use the projector to show us his PowerPoint presentations. Read an interview with the creators at the interactive design firm Tellart here.

Go play with it before everyone hears about it and you have to wait an hour to listen to your song. Or they turn it off.