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By: Create Digital Music » Yellow Drum Machine Robot Creator: You, Too, Can Make Your Own Robots

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:09:11 +0000

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By: fritsl

fritsl — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:15:08 +0000

“fritsl, if you’re out there (or anyone else), want to let us in on who you are?”

Hi there - Yes I am out there, and next to me is some sticks & wires & some yellow belt tracks :D

Thanks for all the street-credit etc, thank you so very much. I hope my next robot / next weekend can live up to this, lol!

I am CEO of bee3.com - consider this brilliant company next time you want a website. Well - what else to do with my 15 minutes of fame, if not an ad for my company ;)

Anyway - it is very easy to make these robots, seriously; I do not have much of a clue, I just have plenty of glue. Hey - what a little fame can bring up in you, rhyming now, so muzical :)

i have made a walk through on how to make a quite capable robot, that uses all the same basics, and it only takes 2 hours once you got the parts send by mail.. letsmakerobots.com

Thanks for listening, and sorry if I do not check back again, answering every god known blog on the planet takes quite some time - but if you need help on a project, do not hesitate to contact me.

Trust me; it is fun and easy to build robots!

Cheers,

Fritsl

By: typodaemon

typodaemon — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:19:17 +0000

I think that’s the cutest little robot I’ve ever seen.

Way more cooler than that dancing yellow puff ball.

By: dlab

dlab — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:29:50 +0000

Not sure that we will be seeing a mobile Haile. Haile was Scott Driscoll’s project (funny how he was never mentioned in the CNN article, huh? Academia’s a bitch…).

I know that Scott left GT to work for a robotics company and Haile is probably GT property, so I don’t know that he’ll be getting worked on…

By: musictech

musictech — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:21:13 +0000

Deadlines can be very good for creativity… an example of this would be the RPM challenge, to create an album in a month. Although it’s hard to measure ‘quality’ of music, I imagine that the quality of ‘deadline’ music is at least as high as that created with no deadline…

By: Jean-François Charles

Jean-François Charles — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:29:55 +0000

As well explained on the maker’s blog, the time constraint is part of the project (not 20 hours, but “short time, without drawing anything in advance.”) It’s really interesting how he thinks this made him make a better robot (”more human”.) Composition time is a parameter of musical creation as well, and it influences the final quality of a piece. And surely in certain circumstances, “shorter time” means “better music,” but in which circumstances? How to create these?

By: ronnie

ronnie — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:16:45 +0000

Lovely robot. Would be a great backup to annoy my wife when I’m not around to tap on things.