If you're looking for a holiday project, a new kind of futuristic musical instrument, or need to impress someone - build a laser harp. Instructables user "Shobley13" has used an Arduino, several laser pointers and some optical sensors to create a device that senses breaks in the laser beams - which emulate harp strings - and sends the signal out via MIDI to a suitable computer with music software. And the results are outstanding - watch the following video:
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