Students Create Musical Jello; Here's How to Make Your Own [VIDEO]

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A couple of design students in Paris have created jello that makes music -- or at least, something close to it. They're calling it "noisy jelly" -- and now you can make your own.

The makers, Raphaël and Marianne Cauvard built different kinds of jello molds, which are filled with solutions of water, agar agar (which makes it gelatin-like) and food coloring.

Different mold shapes and salt concentrations change the sound each gelatin piece makes. Once the jello is set, you can create sounds by adjusting the distance and strength of your finger contact on the mold.

The "game board" that the jello mold sits on detects that touch and converts it into sound. The board is actually a capacitive sensor with an embedded Arduino microprocessor.

Basically, the sensor and microprocessor do the technical work to create the sound. The finger contact does the creative work.

You can see how to go about making the noisy jelly in this music video the students created.

They also wrote out directions, which are listed below, in case you want to make your own musical jello:

1. Pour some jelly powder in the mold.

2. Add some water.

3. Choose a musical coloring and mix it vigorously.

4. After 10 minutes, unmold the jelly on the game board.

5. Ready to play!