The Umbrella That Turns Raindrops into Music

Walking in the rain can be a drag even with an umbrella.  But this may make things a little more bearable.

The BBC has a report on a new umbrella that's loaded with sensors.  Each raindrop triggers a random 8-bit tune.  

Creating such a thing turned out to be more tricky than first expected.  How sensitive should the sensors be?  How to tune the controllers to generate a pleasing sort of tune?  How to attach the sensors to the umbrella and power them?

They managed to work it all out--mostly.  But even then co-inventor Alice Zappe says "It does get a bit annoying after somet ime."

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I like the creative music umbrella, romantic to listen to such music in the rainny days.