Yellow Drum Machine: an automated robot that drums on hard surfaces

August 6, 2009 @ 10:48 am

This is the cutest thing ever! This little robot, called Yellow Drum Machine, is a robot that automatically scans its surroundings for a solid surface to make a beat on. When it finds a solid object, it stops and composes a beat and then loops it back and plays along with it. Pretty awesome. [via]

If you want to make your own, you can follow the instructions for Yellow Drum Machine at Let’s Make Robots.

Drumming on coffee cups

May 25, 2009 @ 12:55 pm

I tend to make a beat on anything around me, but it never ocurred to me that coffee cups would ever be a good substitution for a kit. But now I know, and knowing is half the battle!

Rock remix of “Heartless” by Kanye West

May 16, 2009 @ 3:04 am

This is straight up awesome right here. The drummer here is Kevin from Montreal who plays for the401 band. You can download the rock remix here.