Lego Mindstorms NXT Guitar Hero Robot - Video Checkpoint 1

This is a video checkpoint for a Lego Mindstorms NXT robot that we created using LeJOS to play Guitar Hero. The robot was created as a final project for CS 195 (Hands on Robotics) at the University of Vermont,Fall '08 semester. It uses an NXTCam from Mindsensors to recognize the notes, and two Mindstorms NXT bricks connected with bluetooth to finger the notes and operate the flipper. There is still some work to be done to get it fully operational, but we've made a lot of progress so far. On the to do list at the time of this video is tweaking the lag time between when the robot sees a note and actually plays it. To get a note to play correctly we also need to improve the fingers and get the second brick that controls the flipper working. Additionally we want to improve the note recognition.


You can find an updated video of our much improved robot at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUer3gJaxII

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[kennyepic]

Click more info for a link to a video of our much improved robot playing a song!

[joetasky]

It seems to miss every note?

[PeaceBear0]

Now make one with one kit and the camera. When a motor moves one direction, it touches one button, when it moves the other way, it touches another button (using a differential)

And one can go one way to hit the fifth button and the other to strum. Building three differentials could get tough with the extremely limited kit...

[dadadreams3000]

were do you use the food for on the table?

[ipodtouchmaster2010]

your missing evrey note because no ones strumming

[coolkats5599]

lol were u playen wow in the corner?

[Hidjdjdj]

it misses every note...

[T4nm4y]

im in year 8 and for the qatar nationals our team of 3 are building a robot like that in just 2 weeks,

[Tompi63c]

It's awesome! :-)

[slacker874]

you need to make a strummer to strum the guitar otherwise you can't play a note

[robloxrobloco]

You need to work on it some more because it misses many notes.