Robots for Music Ideas?

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Hello all! I am working on putting together a week-long camp this summer involving robots and music (probably around 15 kids). My idea is to have the students build robots that will play music. I’ve done some preliminary research, but I can’t find any kits or previous projects that accomplish my goals. Ideally, I’d like to:

  1. Have each student build a robot (or part)
  2. Have the students program each robot to play a single note or beat (i.e. hitting a drum head or a single piano note)
  3. Have the robots play together so that some semblance of a song emerges

Does anybody have any ideas on how to make this happen??

I was thinking servo motors and a servo controller might be the way to go. Any thoughts on that?

Any help/idea is greatly appreciated.

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Hey,

Great idea!

Well, any microcontroller with a buzzer or speaker (with proper amplification, usually a transistor and some resistors) would probably be good enough to get you started.

For example, you can play music using the [RB-Lyn-363]. Here is an example code you can base yourself on. This should help you get started. You can get more info about the BotBoarduino in its manual, available here.

There is also plenty of Arduino-based example if you do a quick search online.

Sincerely,