Yellow Drum Machine!

Last night, we did Share.tv episode 4 with Calliope Quartet, which was awesome. Ricardo, the percussionist, actually played his face: he kept rubbing a mic across his stubble to make these crackly noises. It was so cool!

Also, I finished my feature on the Yellow Drum Machine by Frits Lyneborg from letsmakerobots.com. It turned out pretty well, I think.



I'm currently uploading the full episode onto Blip.tv. Usually, uploading an hour-long vid to the internet is a pain in the ass because it takes so long. But now that I've got my Asus Eee PC (I named it Mylo), I can at least do that same task at the bar across the street from the station!

Cheers!

Skype interviews are kind of fun!

Dashed home on my temperamental moped this morning to do a phone interview with Frits L. from Let's Make Robots, a robotics guru from Denmark whose adorable little Yellow Drum Machine robot has been making the rounds on the interwebs. Yellow Drum Machine (YDM) is a tiny, Johnny 5-looking rover programmed to seek out sturdy standing surfaces, roll over to them, tap out a little beat on the surface, and sample and remix himself on the fly. If you haven't seen the vid of this little guy, you should check it out:



John, one of our audio guys on the Share.tv crew, pointed us to the video and I immediately contacted Frits for an interview. He was so good to oblige! We talked for awhile about the nuts and bolts of hobby robotics, then got into the more philosophical issues concerning the subtle differences that separate robots from coffee machines. I'll be editing this feature all week, and it should be part of next week's episode of Share.tv.

Stay tuned!