Drum Bot - Tribute to YDM

Rolls around looking for things to drum on. A copy of the ever popular YDM, as published in MAKE magazine

  • Control method: autonomous (very)
  • CPU: Picaxe 28x1
  • Power source: 4 AA batteries
  • Programming language: Picaxe basic
  • Sensors / input devices: SRF05
  • Target environment: Indoors is best

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/drum-bot-tribute-to-ydm

Nice! Thanks for sharing,

Nice! Thanks for sharing, and congrats on doing the job :smiley:

Did you run the tuning programs I posted?

Uh Oh, that sounds like it’s

Uh Oh, that sounds like it’s out of tune from the professional!

I played w/ the tuning program, but got so anxious to see the 'bot function as a whole, I kinda jumped through the tuning.  I do plan to go back and fine tune it…I had a hard time checking the various instruments for tuning… Some sounded okay, and some sounded slightly off.   As a drummer of 3 years, it’s distrubing to me that I can’t hear if the 'bot is “on beat” or “off beat”!!!

 

 

 

I think I posted the tip of

I think I posted the tip of recording the sound, it’s in the code, I think. If you record it on a computer, you can see the wave, and that helps tuning quite a lot :slight_smile: