Comments on: DeepNote Guitar Hero bot

By: Kjsc03

Kjsc03 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:50:41 +0000

Whats the bot code thing for the ps2?

By: davetd

davetd — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:42:43 +0000

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.

By: Tanzanite

Tanzanite — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:56:17 +0000

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

By: chris

chris — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:31:11 +0000

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

By: Orv

Orv — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:18:36 +0000

@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.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:16:53 +0000

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…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:05:02 +0000

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

By: guy

guy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:52:08 +0000

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. -_-;

By: Odin

Odin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:04:24 +0000

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.

By: danadamkof

danadamkof — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:02:52 +0000

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

By: danadamkof

danadamkof — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:51:22 +0000

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)

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:51:59 +0000

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.

By: Androiders

Androiders — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:33:56 +0000

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....

By: a.p.t.

a.p.t. — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:01:21 +0000

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

By: tony

tony — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:30:32 +0000

Just remember ray, drum machines have no soul.