Hi everybody 
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i’m the Salem Lab°, JC Deyagere, I live in France. I’m a 3D modeler, a musician and some times, a programmer too. I would like to introduce to you a musical toy I’m working on. It’s called ZEBULON. Zebulon i an automate, a kind of USB-puppet.
http://salemweb.fr/zebulon/visuprojet.jpg
It is controlled by using Processing and Arduino.
This robot is based on a Arduino UNO board.
I’m working on this robot for 1 month now. I’m newbie in electronic and robotic. It’s very interesting.
At the beginning I wanted to make a simple USB instrument. Here is the schematic 3D video to explain the concept :
[video=youtube;2yBqkqDpfNg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yBqkqDpfNg&feature=related
Then, the idea of a funny puppet appeared. It has been many time of sewing…hehe (i was a newbie in sewing too :p). So i take a needle and i started sewing clothes for Zebulon.
http://salemweb.fr/zebulon/patchcouture.jpg
For the structure i use wood and metalic pieces. The puppet is moved by 2 servos HITEC 422.
Well there’s many features i would like to developp for this project. i’m working on a 3D interface to control Zebulon and make some others stuffs (i don’t want to speak about for now).
Here’s a screen shot :
http://salemweb.fr/zebulon/interfacezeb.jpg
Here’s the first test of this interface in video :
[video=youtube;5GjZz2MAclM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GjZz2MAclM&feature=related
I use “Processing” to build this interface. This week i’ve written a “random routine” that alllows Zebulon to play alone in a random way. Each times Zebulon plays a note, the computer plays through Loud Speakers a sequence according to the note.
So it’s time for a little music people. Let’s sing with Zebulon. Listen to his random music.
[video=youtube;Y9n39JwOy04]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9n39JwOy04&feature=related
Thanks for your attention.
Enjoy !!