Month: May 2008

Maker Faire CRAFT Recap

It was fun to see everyone this past weekend at the Maker Faire CRAFT area! Thanks to everyone who stopped by and said hi. I worked the booth with Tina Barseghian our new Editor in Chief of CRAFT and Becky Stern, fellow CRAFT blogger. In the area we had lots of crafty demos every hour […]

Looping Musical Robot

This musical robot analyzes the incoming audio and tries to mimic it using a series of servos and solenoids attached to different objects. In this example it is trying to reproduce a clip from Citizen Kane. Simple automatic instruments are constructed from local materials and objects on site. The system learns the sounds it can […]