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Published on Feb 14, 2013

Tim Laursen presents his robot drummers at World Maker Faire New York 2011. The colorfully decorated MIDI-controlled solenoid drummers are activated by a small button panel, and Tim wears his owl drummer backpack to dance to the music.

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  • jambozx

    jambozx 4 months ago

    the kid's couldn't care less what he's saying :D

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    amazinggadgets 4 months ago

    How about spreading out the videos a bit instead of spamming our feeds?

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  • Ian Michael Ferguson

    Ian Michael Ferguson 3 months ago

    Normally in a design like this, the MIDI is used to control relay switches, which connect a much stronger power supply to the motors/solenoids when activated. The relays isolate the weak 5V or so logic system from the 12V+ motor system.

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    placetuco 4 months ago

    The motors are controled by the signal midi but how do you change this signal to electricity for active the motors?

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    placetuco 4 months ago

    Very interessing!!

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    rafael28 4 months ago

    good ol' MIDI

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    2metube4 4 months ago

    wow that guy sounded bored

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    i don't care about being spammed with videos :) it give me something watch

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    @amazinggadgets yeah....it looks like I'm about to unsubscribe over it

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