Re: TI-H: music project update
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Re: TI-H: music project update
Rock your wallet that is. :)
32 wires total for mouth? Is that what you mean?
>after some thinking, and some research, and some more thinking, then some
>doodling, and then some more research i finally decided on a more or less
>'final' plan for my robot. Instead of having 1 robot that plays trombone,
>and then another one that plays trumpet and then another one that lays
>flutes, why not have one configurable robot to do it all? I decided on
>going for a Johnny 5 look and feel. here's the plan:
>
>Face
>* Lips
> the lips will be controlled by 16 muscle wires per lip
>*Jaw and Chin
> the jaw will be controlled by an air muscle
>
>Arms
>*Joints
> Ball and socket shoulder - rotate and swing
> elbow - swing and rotate
> wrist - sway and rotate
> hand w/ fingers - fully functioning hand
>*Functions exactly like a human arm
>*All muscles will be made of Air Muscles
>
>Body
>*Lungs
> It will have a double bellow lung system, kind of like fireplace
>bellows.
>just like human lungs, except that these lungs will operate indeendantly:
>1 lung will lay while the other fills with air.
>*Back
> The back will be a hinge like Johnny 5
>
>Locomotion
>*It will propel itself with wheels/treads
>
>there will be a small computer housed in the machines base to control all
>of the machines functions and to handle the midi processing. The air
>muscle will really make this roject a lot easier, its so much more
>powerful than the muscle wire.
>
>this machine will be able to play all sorts of instruments, it just needs
>to be programmed for the fingering and stuff. this is going to rock
>
>FUZZ
>I Don't See Why Not
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