Ivan Owen and his daughter Torrae are both musicians, but they moonlight as mad scientist inventors. Pulling over a prank on their local pizza delivery guy, these two managed to make their front porch a life-sized organ with little more than some plastic tubes and wood.
Ivan and Torrae "camouflaged" the front steps of their home into music-making pedals with cardboard, duct tape, weather insulation foam, and vinyl tubing. "The vinyl tubes from the pipes were then run next to the steps where we hung the organ pipes out of sight with string," Ivan tells LittleThings. "When a person steps on the pressure plate, it forces air through the tube and into the pipe resulting in an audible tone." So when they called their local pizza guy, the poor fella had no idea from where or how the organ music was being played.
So what sparked this grand invention? "Torrae and I love to create fun, strange contraptions," he says. "The steps happened as a result of having a bunch of organ pipes which I got for a future project. We thought it would be fun to use them to make an interactive musical experience in an unexpected location." The result? You've got to see it for yourself.
When they're not creating things or making music (Ivan is a multi-instrumentalist and Torrae is learning piano), their shared love of technology and science helps them design and fabricate 3D-printable prosthetic devices for children in need of an assistive device. Those are then donated to E-NABLE, which helps get kids the prosthetics they need.
If this one blew you away, there's more of that came from on Ivan's YouTube channel.
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