Yellow Drum Machine Robot is Cute as a Button

The "Yellow Drum Machine" is a snazzy little hand-made robot which putters around, casting its two-camera head franticly for obstacles, then raps out a short beat on whatever it can put its sticks to. It then records its own beat, loops it, and begins to play along with its own rhythm. It's a one man robot band. It will do great for itself busking in the robot subways, especially if it can hook itself up with a troupe of robot breakdancers.

Yellow Drum Machine [Let's Make Robots!] (Thanks to everyone who sent this in, except for Gord, because he's a big jerk. [Just kidding <3])

[#1 posted by License Farm , March 24, 2008 9:24 AM]

Wall-E?

That's pretty killer. I'd love to have a little crazy thing making music all over my house. But the cats would probably kill it.

[#2 posted by Lone , March 24, 2008 11:20 AM]

Before you know it, itd be battery dead after tapping the wall for 10mins. Best to place in its natural environment laden with empty jugs and partial filled glasses!

[#3 posted by Dustin Driver , March 24, 2008 11:57 AM]

That's the best use for a robot that I've ever seen.

[#4 posted by hatekillpuke , March 24, 2008 12:21 PM]

It's head doesn't have two cameras, but a single ultrasonic sensor. It's finding drum-able objects via sonar!

[#5 posted by archcvd , March 26, 2008 9:06 AM]

@hatekillpuke Beat me to it!