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A project log for Bot-thoven: A Robot Musician

Designing a Servo Motor Based Mallet System to Generate Musical Expression in Instrument Playing Robots

jason-pJason P. 09/29/2019 at 20:460 Comments

Plan

For the third week, I met with my partner, David Cha, to discuss our plans for our research project.

Procedures

We met on Friday, September 20th and came up with a timeline for our research project. We also found xylophones on Amazon we would need to purchase in order to conduct our research.  

Progress

David and I updated the timeline we created last year now that we know our time frames for Senior Year. David also informed me that he finished creating MIDI files to test his program with (Yankee Doodle & Old Town Road). I shared with David the information I had learned from reading Background Research Articles.

The xylophone model we ended up choosing was:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0721W53FS/ref=psdc_11970371_t3_B005FPXM0U 

Problems

For next week, I will need to decide which servos to purchase for the servo-mallet system. 

Discussions