Let’s Make Robots! has posted some videos of a cool robot called the Yellow Drum Machine, a Picaxe driven robot that moves around looking for objects to beat on. Whatever is beats on gets recorded and is played again.
Developer fritsl writes:
I was sitting thinking what I should do for my next robot, what it should do.. Listening to music.. making a rythm with some robot-parts.. Thought; “Hey, I will make a robot that drives around and plays on stuff”
The Yellow Drum Machine will
- Navigate around, collect some data, avoid obstacles, until it
- Finds something “worth playing on” (a single isolated object or a wide flat surface that it can find an angle onto)
- Snakes into place
- Plays some beats on what it have found, and samples this, checking it has a “good sound”
- Based on data collected in the area, and sample just made, then compose a little rhythm, and plays this along with the sample.
Watch the videos on the Yellow Drum Machine page to get a better idea of what this all looks like.
Link via Make:Blog
