EOL Robot Band covers The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson

Intially I was working on my own version of Mad World and I did complete it however the Robot Cello didn't work out because the sound of the solenoids and stepper motor was drowning out the song. The Cello also did a lousy job of playing long notes. The printer head would exceed the left or right limit and change direction causing an interuption to the note being played (maybe a wide carriage printer will work better for long notes?). Slowing down the stepper motor did not work because it didn't generate enough movement to create a sound with the bow. So I scrapped the project altogether. One night I was working on the Cello and the stepper motor started to jitter almost ripping the Cello sting and Bow apart. As I was jumping over to the power switch I noticed that the jittery sound reminded me of a song. That song turned out to be The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson. I programmed a small part for the Cello and it sounded great. Who would have ever though to use a Cello for that song? 2 months later.... my video was complete. So Enjoy. I may follow up with a another video showing what circuits, parts and tools that were used to make these robots.

Muting the guitar strings was a bitch but if you look at the solenoids on Fret 4 and 8 you will see that I covered the pads with foam and velvet. It is soft enough to stop the strings from vibrating.

Some people have been asking about a keyboard sound, Yes there is one but it had such a small part in the song I did not video tape it. However you can see it in action in my other video "The Bit-52's Rock Lobster"

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[Christopher Eugene]

Linux FTW!

[DEDinc69]

ive already kneeled to our robot overlords

[mautista619]

mis respetos cabron, me quito el sombrero y me pongo de pie

[TogoTheHermit]

yes it is certainly different, but i like this guitar even more.

given myself as an example, this is not a bad thing.

[thatartsyguy]

i applaude the success of being able to design technology alone that can play the music. that being said icannot deny the fact that this is probably about the blandest combination of sounds i have ever heard. that is no fault of the designer, its simply the fact that the texture that comes from instruments being played on human hands cannot be replaced.

[mikel waters]

GNU Linux genial.

[creativeobsin]

awesome... I was HERE!!!

[Roman Martinuk]

cool

[probassistNOT]

1:06 is so damn creepy...

[javislashcullera92]

ok, now nightrain-GNR

[Ramjet Zu]

the true mechanical animals