Meta Maschinenbild Haus Lange

Maschinenbild Haus Lange is a kinetic sculpture created by Jean Tinguely in 1960.
Jean Tinguely published the plans in the exhibition catalog, allowing anyone to build it.
Once built, all you had to do was send photos to Jean Tinguely, and in return you’d receive a sticker with his signature (if it conformed to the plans, of course).

What you see is a formal copy of this work, but revisited for the occasion with digital technologies allowing greater freedom in the design of movements (at the expense of mechanical simplicity nonetheless).

The movements were created by Paul Guyot.
Meta Maschinenbild Haus Lange is sensitive to touch and can react to certain sounds.
Sounds made by machines.
For example, it can recognize 1960 played by the keys of a telephone, in which case it reproduces exactly the movement of Jean Tinguely’s sculpture.

Technical specifications

• Beech frame
• Aluminum needles (3D printing support)
• 5 stepper motors with electromagnetic brakes
• Raspberry Pi Pico
• Accelerometer and microphone
• Behaviors developed in C

Availability

For obvious reasons, multiplié is not marketing this work.
This is an exercise in style.

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