The Harmonium plots sine waves with European style

The Harmonium is an autistic mechanical brain solely concerned with sine wave synthesis and Fourier Anlysis, built by a Dutch genius who constructed her first oscilloscope at the 14. But we can't do a better job describing the Harmonium's useless beauty than the word perfect summary of the illustrious Retro Thing: "Let's just say that this entire machine elegantly replaces a single function of a $100 graphing calculator with a few thousand dollar-euros of precision engineered metal." I never thought a device would come around that would make me wish I had a reason to plot sine waves by the mere dint of its captivating aesthetic design, but here we are.

The Harmonium [Official Site via Retro Thing via Matrixsynth]

[#1 posted by paradesign , May 2, 2008 7:03 AM]

This is just asking for a video!

[#2 posted by jordawesome , May 2, 2008 8:35 AM]

One function....it totally has two: It also plot cosine waves, they are just pi/2 radians out of phase.

[#3 posted by Jake0748 , May 2, 2008 9:50 AM]

It's beautiful.

[#4 posted by Agies , May 2, 2008 2:22 PM]

When I think harmonium I think reed organ...

[#5 posted by morehumanthanhuman , May 3, 2008 2:05 PM]

EUROPEAN! That's not European, it's STEAMPUNK!

Internet rule #41: "Any fully mechanical device that performs the function of an electronic device must be declared Steampunk."