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Adding the bellows air pump - brilliant!

Thank you to all those viewers who provided me with such helpful advice. I've connected the tuning stepper motors to a separate 5 volt supply and am looking forward to responding to your comments regarding the self-tuning system and how to get the plucking motor LEDs to fade. I could have got on with the Ukulele auto-tuning system, but the bellows arrived, and the thought of creating a steampunk air pump with bellows was just too much! As with the rest of the Ukulele Playing Machine, nothing is planned. It is a joy to figure things out as I go along. First job: devise a way of supporting the bottom of the bellows with some sort of air valve consisting of two wooden balls, a beautiful circular wooden thing and some copper plumbing fittings. Then to work out how to get the pumped air into the string plucking motor pipes - copper pipe and brass Munson Rings seem like a good way to start. Having been imagining this for some time, I decided it could be pulled up with lovely 5mm brass ball chain and gravity would lower it again. The thing is, it visually needs a steel rod running up its centre, a sort of guide, if you will. That way it will be reminiscent of a Victorian piston. The joy of discovering you can fit 16mm diameter bearings into a standard 15mm brass compression fitting meant that would provide the pulley support at the top - as I say, nothing planned, just adventurous design - you learn so much! It worked beautifully, now to create some way of pulling the chain! I'd forgotten how noisy most geared motors are once they are fixed to a wooden box or surface, so resort to the wonderful small stepper motor I use in most of my inventions... Whilst waiting for paint to dry, an unenviable task by any standard, I made a window for the air valve, an air box to direct the pumped air into the plucking motor pipes and I finally sorted out how to get the plucking LEDs to fade in a way more reminiscent of a Victorian invention. Then to finally stand the Ukulele Playing Machine upright - the bellows require gravity to operate. A nerve-racking moment, as I have no idea whether the Ukulele fret carriages will work vertically... they do - I'm so pleased. It was always meant to be wall mounted, but back to the drawing board if they had slipped off the strings. It turned out the small stepper motor wasn't powerful enough to lift the bellows, time to change pulley ratios; it doesn't have to raise the bellows to their limit, just work within a more comfortable range to create air and movement! A project for next time! As always I'm only too pleased to answer any questions and to provide support to others' who want to make exciting steampunk machines. More information on all my machines can be found at https://steamhead.co.uk/ and you can purchase exciting kits and machines at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Steamhea...