Welcome to the Pipe Organ

The Switched-On Physics Project was designed to be a dynamic and creative engineering project to include all interested students and teacher who wished to participate.  Our students designed and constructed the organ from Lexan and recycled electronics. 

• The organ is constructed with a clear casing , so observers could  see the massive undertaking of developing the circuitry and the modified MIDI components. 
• The students wanted to create an organ that could be powered from solar energy to illustrate the viability of using alternative energy to meet specific electrical demands. 
• The actual construction allowed students, many of whom had never built anything before, to work as a team to fabricate the organ body, bench, foot pedals and circuits, while enabling them to encounter the technological modifications of the electronics as well as the programming of the powerful computers that drive the system. 
• The organ was designed to impact the nearly 3,000 students at Pasadena Memorial High School while sharing the vision and development with the nearly 3,000 students at Dobie High School through the participation of Mrs. Obenauf. 

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