MindStorms robot playing guitar

This robot can play five chords using three motors. The guitar is an ordinary acoustic guitar tuned in "open C" - it plays a C chord when the strings are strummed without the other hand touching the fretboard.
And I can say allready now that the robot plays the guitar better than me!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• LEGO
• MindStorms
• robot
• band
• guitar
• blues
• music
• robotband

[FlyingWhaleHarooooo]

Sounds like a slow acoustic version of Mother by Pink Floydd

[organfairy]

@FlyingWhaleHarooooo - Could be. I don't know that particular piece.

[Uberloinvongenchler]

Life is way too short to be doing this, learn to play the instrument instead...

[organfairy]

@Uberloinvongenchler - It wasn't the goal to play the guitar. The idea was to see if it was possible for LEGO bricks to play actual instruments and someone challenged me to go for a guitar. You could call it a nerd project!

[andrewsciberras]

@organfairy Uberloinvongenchler should go home ... this was a nice idea :) ... i'm guessing you tuned the chords to be as if the robot was playing bar chords right?

[organfairy]

@andrewsciberras - The guitar was tuned in "open C" in order for the robot to play other chords by pressing all six strings on the same fret.

[williamthomasmi10]

Haha this is better than the "MIT automatic guiar"!!!

[Houseplanman]

Very nice!!

[SoadOwnsUrFace]

Congrats, you beat MIT with lego.

[FuhrerKaiser]

@FlyingWhaleHarooooo Mother do you think they like this song?

[zomgitzakitteh]

still alot better than little wayne

[BeholdTheAshes]

@williamthomasmi10 way better indeed.

[soundmusiclover]

the robot is really crap, cant beat a human at that

[210breed]

@MattsMuses or if you have extra cash set up multiples to play one after the other and it would seem to play faster

[MattsMuses]

Get it to go a bit faster you could get it to play some pop punk with those simple chords :O

[battlestrikers100]

WOW O_O

[BasLindo]

Instead check out the violin- and trompet-playing robots. Those are truely mind-blowing.

And with the invention of the artificial vocal-cord, a robot-singer may not be farfetched!