Posted on 03/02/2012 9:12:57 PM PST by bigbob
Flying robot quadrotors perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame. The quadrotors play this "couch guitar" by flying over guitar strings stretched across a couch frame; plucking the strings with a stiff wire attached to the base of the quadrotor. A special microphone attached to the frame records the notes made by the "couch guitar".
1:40 video at the link
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Last thing that I have seen as cool as that was a Chevy Volt blowing up.
Engineering students make the coolest useless stuff. Here’s a video of some engineering guys that made a stringless “laser guitar” for some project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sgdlaRv2hk
I think this is pretty cool
Pipe Dreams by ANIMUSIC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu-A0jqMPd8&feature=related
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