Robot Accompaniment for Your Lazy Day Humming #MusicMonday
There’s something old-timey about the act of whistling. Whistling is rural, pre-internet, associated with country roads or bare-footing it through a shallow creek. Humming feels a bit more atemporal. All you need to get humming is the woolgathering, aimless vibe of a summer day with no plans at all. Imagine if a friendly robot pal could accompany your humming with the equally easy-going sound of a recorder? Here’s a project using the Adafruit air pump and vacuum DC motor that creates just such a robot buddy, from via:Kriti Singh, Charlie Lu, Aritrik Ghosh via hackster.io:
The goal of our project was to build a robot that would listen to you hum and play it on a recorder in real-time.
The combination of artificial intelligence with musical expression in human-robot interaction has opened up a fascinating new field of study. To close the creativity gap between humans and robots, this project presents the creation of a robot that can turn hummed tunes into recorder tunes. The main goal is to develop an engaging interface that allows people to easily convey their musical ideas to a robot counterpart, which will provide an immediate and pleasing replay.
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