Intel presents an industrial control concert

CHIPMAKER Intel has shown off its creative side at this year's Intel Developer Forum with a fully automated orchestra.

The Industrial Control Concert took 90 days to build and uses a total of seven Atom processors to run all of the different parts. Reusable paint balls are fired from pipes at the instruments using compressed air with precision timing to create the sounds and music.

However, each part is not musically acoustic so has an embedded sensor that tells the computer to play a note when it is hit by a ball. The quirky music making machine is based on an animation called Pipe Dream made by Animusic in 2004.

The paintballs do make quite a racket hitting the plastic instruments but we think the Industrial Control Concert is rather cool. µ