Physical computing

Acoustic Levitator

A hand-built device that levitates objects using rings of ultrasonic transducers.
ArduinoElectrical DesignSoldering3D Printing
Acoustic levitator with opposing transducer arrays

Project story

Amazed by the physics of acoustic levitation, I decided to construct my own device.

Following an Instructables tutorial, I 3D printed, soldered, and assembled rings of transducers into a working acoustic levitator.