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Build Your Own Drum-Playing Robot

Posted by michael on from the rimshot dept.

libertynews writes "Here is a project called P.E.A.R.T. where EE students constructed a drum playing robot using USB controlled pneumatic actuators and MIDI files."

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  1. Animusic lives! by Chmarr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Cool! The first part of Animusic has come alive... Now if they can only duplicate the ball-shooting music machine, I'd be in heaven.

    Brief: Animusic is a bunch of animated music clips, where the animation is controlled by a MIDI file. Some great animation, and great music, in there.

  2. Re:Pre-emptive Slashdotting? by Coneasfast · · Score: 4, Interesting

    nyud cache going in circles for some reason :+( :
    here

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  3. Similar (but cooler!) by nmoog · · Score: 2, Interesting
    They unleashed this beast at Electrofringe in Syndey this year.
    CeLL is a MIDI controlled pneumatic orchestra - a self playing installation mounted in a 6m shipping container

    Sounded and looked fucking amazing. Big crowd pleaser too!
  4. Re:Just what we need. by Digi-John · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Drum circles, heh.

    When I was at Evergreen Boy's State, we started every town meeting off with 2 minutes freestyle drumming... on chairs, desks, notepads, whatever.

    We could have used this robot, it would have been the only one with a sense of tempo :-) For a bunch of musicians (probably half of us played), we sure couldn't keep a beat.

    Note that my "city" was probably the weirdest of all. We had our drumming, we came up with the first "boring meeting call-and-response" things, we had the white guy with dreadlocks, we had a Greeting Committee to tell us how to say hi to each other, a Most Elite Gaming Committee for setting up Ultimate Frisbee games, a rule that non-residents must ask permission before entering our hallways, and the call "bombs away" was required when flushing a toilet.

    Wow, I digress. Drumming robots good, drum circles bad.

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  5. Re:fun noise generator... by Scum+Puppy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I hope the robot isn't running BSD, heh. Not sure if this is still true, but amusing none the less.

  6. Pfffft. . . by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    http://capturedbyrobots.com/

    This guy has an entire robotic band. Quite an amazing sight.

  7. don't forget the monkey drummer by BlueLines · · Score: 2, Interesting

    chris cunningham did a sweet robotic drummer installation. you can find it here:

    http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Aphex_Twin/Biogra ph y/

    click on the "monkey drummer" link.

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  8. Ha, still no match for... by NarrMaster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... the Drum Can Man

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  9. Re:and... by echo-e · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The fact is that a pnumatic "robot" can play the drums faster than just about any human drummer. It would be pretty impressive to hear live, acoustic drum riffs at 200+ bpm...

    at least for ten or fifteen minutes.