So nice to see that !
Around 10 years ago I had the same idea, but not as well executed. Almost had the same name as well: Orbital.<p>Short video here[1]<p>Unfortunately the project has now bitrotted, the wayback machine only has some remnants of it[2]<p>Throwaway to not dox my main account !<p>[1]:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tGzgMll43w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tGzgMll43w</a><p>[2]:<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161104035152/https://theelectricsquid.com/orbitalproject/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20161104035152/https://theelectr...</a>
Neat. Reminds me of the Racer game Google put out a decade ago with music by Giorgio Moroder.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/YT0k99hCY5I" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/YT0k99hCY5I</a>
It's like Drum Buddy without a soul<p><a href="http://www.drumbuddy.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.drumbuddy.com/</a>
<a href="https://youtu.be/vvtssL8WlJA" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/vvtssL8WlJA</a>
Ah, just use sonograms to generate the audio...
<a href="https://youtu.be/HT0HH_fc4ZU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/HT0HH_fc4ZU</a>
Reminds me of this old Fisher Price toy "record player": <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-Classics-Record-Player/dp/B003CGVCXS" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-Classics-Record-Player/d...</a>
I was kind of hoping the inner orbitals rotate faster than the outer ones, with the rotation speeds in some "orbital resonance" whole-number ratio.<p>That would be a more complicated device, but maybe there's a reasonable way to do it with timing belts or gears.
I love the idea, but it looks less-than-ideal to "play" it live. I watched the first video and you can see the handler struggling to place & adjust notes.<p>Why not have the scanner sweep across a stationary circle? Not turntable enough?
But it is spinning! Fun DIY weekend project, but crazy that someone has guts to push this into mass market product.<p>Could use CCD sensor from old scanner for high res version.<p>OpenCV this with webcam and python script, but no spinning.