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Build Your Own Drum-Playing Robot
Posted by
michael
on Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:00 PM
from the rimshot dept.
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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The goggles do nothing! (Score:5, Insightful)
-Adam
Q: How many drummers (Score:5, Funny)
A: Twenty. One to screw it in, and nineteen to talk about how much better Neil Peart could have done it.
*rimshot*
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Re:Q: How many drummers (Score:5, Funny)
A: None. We have a machine that can do that now.
Actually, I think this joke was much funnier before this story.
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Re:Q: How many drummers (Score:4, Funny)
Q: how many drummers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: one, but he's got a roadie to pick out the bulb, take it out of the box, place it in the threads, and hold it just right until the drummer is ready for it.
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Q: what's the last thing the drummer said before being kicked out of the band?
A: hey guys, I wrote a song!
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Q: why does every band have a bass player?
A: SOMEONE has to drive the van.
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I also like the "guy who hangs with musicians" one, but someone beat me to it.
S
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Re:The goggles do nothing! (Score:5, Funny)
No. Surely it's just a coincidence.
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Feed it a MIDI file for Moby Dick (Score:5, Funny)
Animusic lives! (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Don't do it (Score:5, Funny)
Slave over it, loose sleep programming it, pour your hard earned money into it...
Next thing you know it runs off to Hollywood to start a band...
Yeah you MAY get a postcard occasionally... You may see it during guest appearances on TechTV but, will it care you are up fretting it's getting its proper upgrades? NO!
It sounds like a recipe for heartache...
Sorry, I've said too much already...
and... (Score:3, Insightful)
Obligatory... (Score:3)
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fun noise generator... (Score:5, Funny)
cache of the "How It Works" page (Score:3, Informative)
Almost there... (Score:5, Funny)
1) An obnoxious t-shirt. My favorite is the old "Snatch: the Greatest Food on Earth". Of course, there are plenty of others. Alternatively, a lesser drummer might resort to an old hockey jersey, but make sure it has a dozen holes and pizza stains on it.
2) Abhorrent smell. When your eyes water, you're getting close. The smell should be enough to kill a small animal.
3) Repulsive to women. This is more attitude than anything else. Make sure the robot takes credit for everything. The robot should act like Gods' gift to music; he wrote/composed everything and is really the key to the band's success. Also, if there are any guitar robots around trying to hit on bar-bunny robots, make sure drummer robots inturrupts with embarassing stories about the guitar robots.
4) Completely insane tastes in music. Make sure the robot likes nothing more than some obscure late-60's bluegrass band that sold a hundred albums. As a bonus, the robot should get violent when said band's musical ability is questioned. Drummer robot should insist that this band's entire catalog be performed at every gig.
5) Alcoholism. The robot should start drinking in the morning, and won't stop till the next. Make sure the robot whores all the free beer at gigs. For the best realism, make sure this alchohol intensifies all of the other mentioned points. But most importantly, a good drummer always lets alcohol cause him to play poorly. It's never his own fault, of course.
6) Always late. Rehearsal, Gig, Practice, Weddings, ii-V changes, second verse, etc.
Re:Almost there... (Score:3, Funny)
Q: How do you get a guitarist to turn down?
A: Put sheet music in front of him.
Similar (but cooler!) (Score:3, Interesting)
Sounded and looked [cell.org.au] fucking amazing. Big crowd pleaser too!
What do you call a guy... (Score:4, Funny)
The drummer!
*Ba-dum-bump-tsh*
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