Why confine your nerdy sloth to your living room, where large robots
mime fake guitar and serve you
sloppy mixed drinks? Take that zest for the sedentary life with you on the road by having one of your robot ninjas steal this iPhone Rock Band robot from its ingenious creator, Joe Bowers. The Arduino-based device uses ambient light sensors to detect the falling notes and then taps out the music with some conductive foam attached to some squeaky fake fingers. Joe did a fairly detailed write-up, and even uploaded his code, so there's presumably nothing stopping you from actually doing something with your life and building one of these with all that free time you've saved up by hacking your way through all the console-based guitar games. Video is after the break.
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posted Oct 31st 2009 7:36PM
Epic
not really, considering how fucked the right(blue) fnger was, was so damn off. If it would have worked correctly, it would have been 100%, and therefore epic.
really? 87%? arduinos must be slow, or his code must suck.
Wow, where's your tutorial? Mr.Bigshot
The blue arm was running early, so each time that it was supposed to play it missed - hence 87%.
A shame really, because it would be a fair bit cooler to actually build a machine that can "perfect" the game.
I don't think that someone who takes the time to make this can be classified as "lazy".
True laziness requires effort
+1 @ chris
laziness leads to effiency, effiency to outsoucing and out sourcing is the path to giving all your seashells to the other guy so he may afford the products of your inventivness while you struggle to click together the rent.
Don't let the robots get the seashells I tell you! I forsee a 2nd renascence with new kings on hollow nanotube thrones!
Very well conducted, you sir deserve to be at the top of every high score leaderboard.
Also, spray some wd40 on those fingers....
That's what she said.
spaceship.
my N64 is working like a charm
My fork can carry food.
Monster cables can still suck.
I have no idea why. But I nearly urinated myself while laughing at paddyireland comment.
Now we just need a larger version that can detect the light reflected off skin and pull a trigger.
Also sorry but
I for one welcome our new rockin' overlords.
Anyone who has the ability to conceive and fabricate an electronic device of that caliber should be smart enough to do something useful and productive with their time and supplies. Great job, but no job for it.
I don't remember reading anything about Joe Bowers being unemployed.
I think he means that all of this time effort and knowledge went into something insignificant. Nobody will ever benefit from this. I see what you're saying, but I disagree. If this was his day job, I would agree wholeheartedly. But I'm sure that this was just free-time induced... Hobbies don't have to help man kind, they simply have to pass time in an enjoyable fashion.
If he enjoyed himself and learnt something, that's definitely a productive use of free time.
Now get that robot to do your laundries.
You're thinking of a "washing machine"
Now your bot can play games and take your calls too! Somebody let me know when the people gliders are ready so I can get fat and lazy when the bots take whats left of my life, ok?
"Why confine your nerdy sloth to your living room, where large robots mime fake guitar and serve you sloppy mixed drinks?"
Huh? What are you talking about? Where ha that happened?
the sounds of the fingers kinda gives you a sense of how stupid rhythm games are
yeah I started watching this then was looking at something else for a minute and the sound of the robot fingers reminds me of a printer.
I wonder if he's working on a console version of this hehe