AWESOME!!

Posted at 8:21 pm on Jul 14th, 2008 by pip

That’s pretty cool, but that totally takes the fun of playing Guitar Hero. Half the fun is getting owned. I do think my math teacher can take on this robot though, he plays guitar hero with a passion.

http://www.thenaturalsapphirecompany.com

Posted at 8:25 pm on Jul 14th, 2008 by Marilynn

Congradulations on setting up 5 optical sensors in front of a tv and having it output to a USB port.

How about you use this to build a robot that plays the drums in Rockband, and it better look like the bear in the Chuck-E-Cheese robot band.

Posted at 9:02 pm on Jul 14th, 2008 by Ray

Just remember ray, drum machines have no soul.

Posted at 9:30 pm on Jul 14th, 2008 by tony

but can it play “through the fire and the flames” on expert??

Posted at 11:01 pm on Jul 14th, 2008 by a.p.t.

That is so cool :) I cant get enough of all the G.H bots out there.

My aproach would however be to mechanically enhance the respons time of my left hand digits, and put some accelerators in my spine so i would hit the notes on time….

Posted at 3:33 am on Jul 15th, 2008 by Androiders

It is yet another simple feedback loop from a set of optical sensors that tell the system what it just did. Why is this news?
It is a novel application I’ll grant you that, but the part about everyone doing this exact same thing trying to develop the sensors and boards from scratch is simply re-inventing the wheel unnecessarily, only badly. Especially since you can already buy this stuff off the shelf, plug and play, for literally a couple of bucks a sensor, from any industrial motion control supply catalog. Even a simple computer-run lathe or pick-and-place device has both more accurate and a greater variety and number of optical feedback sensors than this, as does virtually every piece of computer controlled assembly equipment going back decades.

Posted at 3:51 am on Jul 15th, 2008 by Eric

Someone needs to make one of these for beatmania IIDX.

FYI this is what the hard songs in that game are like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW34iG4bsQw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwBGUVLGRyo (especially 1:08-1:18)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APd5Ii1hAfI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhXOKQCPZb0 (especially the second song)

Posted at 5:51 am on Jul 15th, 2008 by danadamkof

And this song’s also pretty hard:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVdsDKB_hQg

Posted at 6:02 am on Jul 15th, 2008 by danadamkof

Eric,

“since you can already buy this stuff off the shelf, plug and play, for literally a couple of bucks a sensor, from any industrial motion control supply catalog”

Sensors are all good and fine, but what will you do with it? What kind are you talking about? (Link, please)

“Even a simple computer-run lathe or pick-and-place device has both more accurate and a greater variety and number of optical feedback sensors than this”

Since everyone has a computer run lathe lying around to hack into my guitar…

Keep the articles coming. I will be happy once they publish the schematics. That way I won’t have to re-invent the wheel on the sensors.

Although, I do wonder why they are using an 8-core, 80MHz processor. Are they doing DSP on this? I wonder why they didn’t just run it directly to the SSR.

Posted at 12:04 pm on Jul 15th, 2008 by Odin

When did all these whiners start reading hackaday? if it’s not all hacks all the time, people whine. when they do post hacks, people whine that they’re too obvious. and now I’m whining about people whining. -_-;

Posted at 12:52 pm on Jul 15th, 2008 by guy

Not bad. Now hide the sensors in a hat, wireless and concealed, and it would sell like mad.

Posted at 8:05 pm on Jul 15th, 2008 by Jeff

man, if it isn’t some guy whining about whining whiners, it’s some other guy whining about that first guy’s whining and the whiners HE’S whining about.

…a loaf of bread, a jug of whine, and…hackaday…

Posted at 10:16 pm on Jul 15th, 2008 by strider_mt2k

@7: Reinventing the wheel isn’t always useless. It can be a great educational experience — remember, these are high school kids. Coming up with new stuff can come later once they have the basics down. This is the electronics equivalent of practicing times tables or deriving Newton’s theorums. It’s nothing new but it practices important skills.

Posted at 2:18 pm on Jul 16th, 2008 by Orv

ok i know how to build this but where do u get the supplies especially the sensors

Posted at 4:31 pm on Aug 20th, 2008 by chris

That is seriously cool. I studied electronics at college and this is not an easy setup to build. I am very impressed it has been achieved by a group of high school students. Obviously, there could have been improvements especially on the number of optical feedback sensors but well done anyway.

tanzanite

Posted at 6:56 am on Nov 3rd, 2008 by Tanzanite

Cool! Looks like it was a winner in a contest.

In case anyone is interested I found more info about this project(including source code) here: http://www.parallax.com/tabid/710/Default.aspx.

Posted at 3:42 pm on Dec 18th, 2008 by davetd

Whats the bot code thing for the ps2?

Posted at 5:50 pm on Jan 17th, 2009 by Kjsc03