Meet Spruce Deuce, The Plywood Robot Drummer

Steve Averill’s plywood robot drummer, Spruce Deuce, is made from birch plywood and HiTec Servo’s and is controlled by a Highly Liquid MD24 MIDI to servo controller. The MD24 converts MIDI signals to signals that control 11 RC servos. You can check out more MD24 MIDI robot projects at the Highly Liquid forums.

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The Game Of Life Applied To Music

John Conway’s Game of Life is a classic game, first discussed in a Scientific American article in 1970, that uses simple rule to simulate how different colonies of life evolve. A new plugin, Automaton from Audio Damage, takes these ideas and applies them to the manipulation of sound. Automaton isn’t the application to bring the… Read More The Game Of Life Applied To Music

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Meet Spruce Deuce, The Plywood Robot Drummer

The Game Of Life Applied To Music