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Robots can play Rock Band too!

I decided to turn the Guitar Hero Robot towards Rock Band. The video is playing songs on expert! The results look better than expected, I think the notes may be easier for the sensors to pick up. There is still a lot of dropped notes, which I think can be blamed on all the visual effects strobing across the screen. A more precise sensor may be the solution.

I also modified the sensor rack so each sensor is at a consistent height. This helped eliminate a lot of problems.



  1. Bryan
    May 18th, 2009 at 10:52 | #1

    I’m very interested in seeing your Arduino code for this. I was inspired by this project and put together my own version over the weekend. I am using the same sensors.

    I seem to be having timing and sensitivity issues with reading from the screen. Maybe my code is not as efficient as it could be.

  2. J
    October 26th, 2009 at 03:08 | #2

    I would love to see the code for this as well.
    I have been visiting here frequently to see if the code/how-to are released…

  3. October 26th, 2009 at 10:30 | #3

    I’m still working on it, but I will send you what I have.

  1. October 31st, 2009 at 13:47 | #1
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