Thursday, March 01, 2012

QuadRock


This piece of nerdy cool is from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science. From the description at YouTube [Hat tip: Sean Carroll at Cosmic Variance]:

Flying robot quadrotors perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame. The quadrotors play this "couch guitar" by flying over guitar strings stretched across a couch frame; plucking the strings with a stiff wire attached to the base of the quadrotor. A special microphone attached to the frame records the notes made by the "couch guitar".

These flying quadrotors are completely autonomous, meaning humans are not controlling them; rather they are controlled by a computer programed with instructions to play the instruments. [...]

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