Guitar Hero Robot from FIRST Robotics Team 1986, Team Titanium

[Ltfurman25]

Pretty sweeet. I wish my team did something like this.

-Team 639

[jspatz1]

Not sure what you are thinking of with "charging time." The solenoid response is pretty much instantaneous as soon as it sees voltage, no charging delay. Solenoids are electromagnets, not capacitors. There is surely a physical delay of a few milliseconds for the triggering to take place, but that is tuned in to our overall delay from the sight line to the play line. These are continuous duty solenoids, meaning they can be energized continuously without overheating.

[TheSourabhify]

Another question (thanks for answering these by the way! :D): I read that your robot was pretty accurate for the expert level - that's impressive stuff. But don't solenoid actuators have a pretty immense charging time? What was your charging time like? Or did you use some sort of continuous duty system? And if there was a charging time, how did you manage to play notes continuously... in certain cases, aren't there like... 10 notes in a row or so before a pause on each key?

[TheSourabhify]

Are the actuators solenoid or pneumatic?

[jspatz1]

@TheSourabhify 12V solenoids.

[TSPx4]

I remember titan. I do recall beating him on more than one occasion in Denver, but still an awesome project. I expect to see something equally awesome come next year.

[jspatz1]

@TSPx4 Sorry we won't be in Denver this year, but we do have another project up our sleeves.

[team256Andrew]

This is one of the things that makes me proud to be in FIRST!

Andrew Lawrence, Team 256

[kewwi2]

well done

-Team 1458

[jspatz1]

Its a robot for fun. Chill.

[beastlikethat100]

Hey! Its cheating! Its using all 5 fingers to play the notes!!!

[jspatz1]

@beastlikethat100 You could use 5 fingers you just choose to put your thumb on the wrong side.

[beastlikethat100]

@jspatz1 How would you hold it then?

And dont answer with a vise... ;)

[hazo2000]

Please make it do Through the fires and flames...

[TheBloodEagle27]

Metalhead's cousin

[MrSnurvel]

when i was young i thought this was how a guitar hero bot looks like

[BF2Commander92]

that thing looks evil

[mahbrocigarettes]

...but can it play jordan?....

[youcantfigureoutmeh]

what titan of of mega mind

[x9k10]

6 dedos?

[karbengo]

Look, he's using a bot! HAAX!!!

[jahmehsu]

First they make a video-game out of musical instruments (thumbs down), and then they make a robot do the work for you (thumbs down). Please, learn to play the actual guitar.

[BOBtheCOLORS95]

hahahaha good job -fancypants of the gearheads (1189)

[KingRichardthe3]

Is a fucking grEat Robot! yEAh!! xD

[KingRichardthe3]

I wanna Look this robot play Through The Fire And Flames :D

[EliteL01]

ILL DESTROY THIS ROBOT WIT MY SKILLZ AND HE'LL JUST SELF DESTRUCT xD

[LazorSlayer]

Omg this robot should play with me !

[RazorbackZach]

Darn you guys just beat Kryptonite team 624 from Katy, TX. Im from Katy TX. poop, good job though.

[TeamTitaniumRobotics]

@RazorbackZach But we won with them also! Titanium + Cryptonite = Super Alloy

[RazorbackZach]

@TeamTitaniumRobotics haha lol, that's awesome :)

[evildude18]

ONE DAY ROBOTS WILL PLAY REAL GUITAR AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD....OR ALREADY TUDAY

[evildude18]

ONE DAY ROBOTS WILL PLAY REAL GUITAR AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD....

[MrKillerofallpeople]

can that thing do battle? i so then hav the best guitar heros face it and see who rules. humans or machienes

[destefanokyle]

if you cant play a guitar u play guitar hero, if u cant play guitar hero u build a robot that can...

[Honda4wheeler4ever]

SOOOOO legit!

[dirtyforehead]

Got carried away with the wammy-bar and missed a note. Rookie mistake robot.... Rookie mistake... 3:15

[modmadmike2]

You should have bought a usb tv card and used it to get a more accurate video signal than the webcam enables. I used to be part of team 1807 (Redbird Robotics), but they never let me do anything even though I had a lot of technical knowledge (and computer knowledge like programming, and Unix/Linux environments). :(

[jspatz1]

@modmadmike2 The whole point of the robot is to visually watch the TV screen along with a human opponent, and mechanically operate the guitar just as a human player would. There are many electronic shortcuts that could have been taken, such as processing the video signal directly, or outputting electric signals to the guitar. These would be easier, but would somewhat defeat the purpose of the project, and would not be nearly as interesting to watch.

[ConcisusSomnium]

@jspatz1 Splitscreen it, then

[nalbonp]

@modmadmike2 I would have liked to have had you work with zak on programming, if you had any prior experience. no one ever stopped you from trying.

[UberWagen]

Time for dragonforce on extremely hard lol.

[BrokenAetherWings]

that is seriously cool!

[ADanceGirly]

wow, this is incredible :)

[fezz124]

is it 100% acurate???

[jspatz1]

@fezz124 No. The most difficult task is accurate vision interpretation of the notes and that is simply not 100% with our low-cost system. Also being a mechanical system there is always some opportunity for miscues in the actuation of the guitar over hundreds of notes. It is accurate enough to be a pretty tough challenge and very entertaining.

[Tahlorn]

Very cool. Looks like that school has a good amount of money to spend too, I know my high school couldn't afford to do ANYTHING like this.

[jspatz1]

@Tahlorn Our school had no part in funding the robot. It was paid for through team fundraising and donations of materials from mentors.

[ghgeek2010]

@jspatz1 how long did it take u to make this robot?

[TheSithOverlord666]

team 3197 leader here.....i believe i beat this robot on expert raining blood......still insanely good though, i had to exploit its weakness to beat it.

[LeoandEricProduction]

dude this alsome im a new student 2 first robtics my self and think this is the coolest thing iv seen so far way to go team 1986

[Compman90]

thats cool what kind of vision tracking system did you use

team 1448 programer

[jspatz1]

The vision is all done in Labview with output from a 30fps webcam.

[mikes595]

now you just have to work on one that can do the drums and one that sings.

[oa172]

now thats what i call a robot!!! lol

[Blaiseonboard]

I beat that robot on Before I Forget on hard at the robotics show at Lees Summit West

[jspatz1]

Hey, good for you, you are a good player. The lower the difficulty, the easier he is to beat. He is "tuned" to play on expert and does not play other levels as well. We don't really consider him "beaten" unless you beat him on expert. A few people have.

[revup90]

Can you Get this robot on pc? i wanna battle it or have my bot playit.

[bigbortz25]

why have a robot its SOOO easy to do lol

[greenpicklesandonion]

VERYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY COOL the is beast

team 88

[Hegemon1990]

Have it play Thunderstruck ;)

[Danzairox]

looks soo cool!

[korea148]

Really Amazing

Whow .. zzz

[JCoder1672]

hhhaa thats awesome now if only my team was that good lol

-Team 1672

[neosman8]

what kind of equipment/ programs would you need to build something like that?

[alterbr33d]

So every time the camera senses the light at a certain point it pushes the corresponding button? This would be great for getting achievements on Xbox 360.

[Oddbrother]

Not if it can't use whammy.

[erstech2]

it can

[jspatz1]

It is a little more complicated than that. The fire plumes, fret bar lines, guitar backgrounds, and lightning strikes all interfere with just looking for light.

[kristenliz528]

Props to all of you, I'd like to see this thing go head to head with the NI guitar hero bot. Bring it to atlanta next year!!!

Kristen, team 20

[jspatz1]

I'll make this offer....if we can get there, we'll bring it!

[Haikuification]

I want to mate with this robot.

[houlepa]

Common Robot need to FC that song!!! lol

[bibaja]

Great stuff!

[shadowman080]

nice

[OutdoorChef]

awesome guys!!!