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Lazy Musicians Spawn Robot Ukulele

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the devil-made-them-do-it dept.

densetsu writes: "Three weeks ago, instead of forking over 5 whole bucks for an actual ukelele instruction booklet, I decided to teach myself for free using internet resources. Now that my will (and fingers) have been broken, these guys offer a faustian shortcut. They built a Lego Mindstorms-powered REMOTE CONTROLLED self-playing ukulele. The site has some nice photos and mindstorms code. Rock super-stardom, here I come!"

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  1. All well and good . . . by micromoog · · Score: 5, Informative

    . . . but not new. And these guys actually have sound samples, too . . .

  2. Lego Robots by sosentos · · Score: 4, Informative

    There was some stuff they didn't really mention on their site that people might be interested in. They used the Handyboard as their microcontroller system. You can learn more about it here.

    http://www.handyboard.com/

    This would also mean they are using Interactive C (a stripped down version of C) for their programming.