DeepNote™ GH Bot PROTOTYPE "Cult of Personality"-Expert 99%

[terriyakiboychino]

why dont you build a mkcf bot to play

[MTVStar100]

so prefect 

[remy1121]

this thing probably pulls some serious ass

[SebiTimeWaster]

cool, a no computer approach... nice!

[sciguy14]

@SebiTimeWaster Thanks! Be sure to check out the finished version in newer videos!

[Bassistking]

Haha, this thing sucked, I went up against it in 2008 in Balboa Park in San Diego, and I kicked that thing's ass (if it had one, but anyways.) I took my thumb and slightly blurred the lense, without the engineer's knowledge, and just to be fair, I played the majority of the same song with my back turned to the screen, and I won. The engineers were flabbergasted, and later took the stand down afterwords, hahaha. I don't believe in no-win scenarios

[sciguy14]

That's not very nice... but ours doesn't use a lense - photodiodes would not be affected by that trick.

[ZEROBLOOD122]

damn you must be smart lol =o

[iownuuu]

That must have taken so much time to build...

You must be very proud of it...

Its jaw-dropping the way it works

[sciguy14]

Yes, it certainly wasn't a short project. The end result was well worth it, however.

[TraXx1992]

me too:P. those lights are great xD

[DevilGuyUK]

that is very impressive ;)

[violinbow3]

lots of overstrums but idk how the hell you guys can do that?! O.o thats amazing.. good work on the bot! :D

[sciguy14]

thanks: watch some of the newer videos of the bot, it's gotten better ;)

[gxstxvx]

awesome. actually it is identifying the notes!

Very clever guys!

[JoePage2008]

Ive totally changed the circuit design of my robot, when done it should work as good as yours, may take a while, dont have much money. But soon as its done and working it'll be on youtube straight away

[JoePage2008]

how much did it cost you for the 8-core thing chip, im programming chips with basic, the chips are so thick, one cost me £5 i programmed it to play chords too, still cant do it, plus the cheaper £1.50 chips destroy theirselves for no reason, 5 have been killed, if i ever finish it and get it to play ttfaf it'll probably blow up

[sciguy14]

We bought a prop-stick USB version which was about 100 bucks.

[ScottWillz]

that is sad

[tivaelydoc]

why buy the game?

[richkawaiipikachu]

I wouldn't be surprised if it could play ttfaf on expert .

[sciguy14]

It can. there is a video of it.

[sirbean]

You guys better watch out. Sarah Conner's gonna come knockin' at your door soon!

[godkillax]

This is freaking Nuts. It will crush me.

[GameStrata]

Pretty cool!

[jdeucexx]

And the point of this is??

[ayeroxor]

For all you whiny bitches asking why and what for etc, etc. If I know guys like this, they're doing it because it's fun, but also because it helps them teach themselves how to program software and hardware and design circuits, and that's something that they can use in their careers to make more money a year than you whiny bitches pay in taxes.

[sciguy14]

thank you ;)

[SteveRyherd]

Lol, I sure hope they'll make more money in a year then I pay in taxes.

You know it'd be even better if they paid more money in taxes then I made in a year. Man, they'd be huge then. =)

But, yea I agree... it's fun to make a recognizable project that people can identify with, and there are major rewards to doing something and learning from it. I wish I knew way more about hardware/circuitry. Alas, I'm a simple software programmer.

[ayeroxor]

"Lol, I sure hope they'll make more money in a year then I pay in taxes."

Yeah, god dammit I knew I fucked that up right when I hit submit! :P

[dunnace]

What is the point of this? Seriously, why would anyone buy it?

[dtmcquade]

hater

[nericus]

Why not? The first computers were built by people tinkering too... who knows.. maybe this could develop into a completely robotic rockband. Absolutely pointless, but still an achievement

[dunnace]

Because the fun of GH is playing the song. It's like inventing a tennis robot to play at Wimbledon for you, why bother?

[JoePage2008x2]

I agree that the fun of GH is playing the song yourself, but for people who like electronics the fun is bulding something that only a few people have done and seeing something that you spent your money and time on work

[sciguy14]

Exactly. We still enjoy playing the game manually, but the satisfaction you get from building an "intelligent" bot is also very fulfilling for geeks like us.

[agentx3]

Ok, how about the people who buy them to FC every song? Those people are just plain losers.

[CtrlZ90]

Some people just want to be amazed. What if I only play on level Hard and I want to see an impossible custom song beaten on Expert? Call a friend? Didn't think so either.

[omegacrap]

doing something like that would be the ONLY way I could ever get expert

[frogeye3000]

F U N T A S T I C ! ! !

:)

[krzychoocpp]

Awesome. Purely awesome! Recognizing notes displayed on screen and parallel data processing on 8 cores... You Rock!

[ultatryon]

You guys need to learn to just.. stop... talking.. on your videos.. Let the video speak for itself..

[currykill]

is this on 360,ps3,pc or wii?

[sciguy14]

This is on PC, but it works on xbox360 as well, because they use the same USB guitar.

[kripledreaper]

u should sell these,youll make ALOT of $

[sciguy14]

They aren't exactly easy to mass produce... :) But, yeah, a bunch of people seem to want to buy this...

[doom3jocky]

hmmmmmmm isnt it possible to make a smaller less complicated bot for i dont know...45$-50$? tops like something that you plug into the 360 guitar controller and it automaticly detect te notes and stuff?

[sciguy14]

This one wasn't too expensive...maybe 300 dollars of parts.. the PCBs are expensive.

[thinkmurphy]

sell me one so i have a decent partner for rockband :-P

[sciguy14]

Haha, hopefully once we are one completely, I'll post a how-to so you can build one of your own. We might also try a complete rockband bot...

[JoePage2008]

Im building a robot like this, ther are only yours and one other that work in this way.

[sciguy14]

what is the other one that uses light sensors?

[JoePage2008]

i got it wrong, turns out its your site

mine works off of infra-red phototransistors

Also my guitar hero robot is almost complete all i now have to do is get some relays and program all of my micrchips

I also found out that its easier to hack an Xbox or guitar hero controller instead of using solenoids to press the buttons, well homemade solenoids.

My video will soon be on Youtube

[pivotmaster12343]

thats cool

[karateshayne]

that is really really cool...i wish i could do that

[Jallenbah]

That's absolutely awesome. I wish I knew more nerds like myself so we could actually do things like this. Nobody i know could really be bothered to do anything like this, or that mineral oil PC thing.

[sciguy14]

Haha, yeah I guess I'm pretty lucky that I actually know people who are interested in this stuff also :) Glad you liked it.

[binaryspiral]

Also, it appears the optical sensors get tweaked by the lightning from the start power, especially during a barrage of notes.

Perhaps moving the sensors farther up the fret bar and increasing the delay would work around that.

[sciguy14]

We have noticed the same thing. The only problem with moving them farther up is that they then have trouble differentiating between very close notes... As for the lightning, I think we can fix that with some software filtering.

[binaryspiral]

interesting idea, using optic sensors to pick up the notes on the screen.

The preprogramed bot I've seen elsewhere seems more polished, but much less geeky. Great job.

[jamkidaruen]

NICE IM WORKING ON BLUE TOOTH RECEIVER FOR THE PS3 it it can not respond any suggestions

[sciguy14]

Sorry, but I haven't really worked with the PS3. What exactly are you trying to do?

[jamkidaruen]

tell video info so caculate when to hit key

[sciguy14]

well you will need to use some relays hooked up to the connections in the guitar.

[MathGamer92]

really nice job. It was amazing on the solos and ranked up all the points there. It randomly started strumming in the begining and end. Then again it is just the first prototype. Overall the bot missed 2 notes. The score could be higher though. Make a bunch of tweeks to the robot and your all set with breaking records. haha

[zlynn1990]

Just an update, I tweaked some of the code for faster response times and the bot got 710k 98% on though the fire and flames. Originally it was getting 560k.

[sciguy14]

thanks for the update Zach (Zach is another person working on the bot with me)

[TheAssailant6661]

Three things left: Show this to Engadget. Create a DDR Bot, and play people around the world online and rule the world!!!!!!1!!1!!111!!!!!!!! Ok, maybe not that last one...

[sciguy14]

haha yeah. I'd like to submit this to engadget once we get it totally completed. The final version will be housed in the guitar, and a single cable will tether the guitar to the sensor bar (where the sensors will be placed eventually). Not to mention that I'll make a really nice video of the bot and process of building it.

[CsS1337h4x0r]

How much are you gonna sell this for :)

[TheAssailant6661]

I think he's be willing to seel it for a quater of a trillion dollars. Anyone got a spare $25 billion on them? :)

[sciguy14]

haha I don't think it's worth thaaat much. 10 billion will be sufficient. :)

[jamie141999]

Amazing, I wish I had the patience to make something like this!

[ChIkEnAtEmYdOnUtS]

VERY nice! :)

[toonrunedudehobby]

BTW, awesome. Badass if you ask me. Did you put resistors on the LEDs?

[sciguy14]

Yes, there are resistors there (100K if I remember)...we don't want them sucking up all the current :). They are hard to see because they are hidden under the LED's. When this is finalized we'll put the circuit diagrams and programs all online for others to follow if they wish.

[toonrunedudehobby]

What was the software programmed in? Basic?

[sciguy14]

Nope, basic/the basic stamp is way to slow for this. We currently have it programmed in an interpreted language called "spin" on the parallax propeller chip. The propeller chip has 8 cores allowing us to perform note calculations simultaneously. We may rewrite some code in assembly code to speed up the processing even more.