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May 15, 2006

Roomba as MIDI Instrument

at 6:40 am. Filed under DIY Hacks, Electronic Hacks

 

If you want to have more fun with your Roomba check this out!

“RoombaMidi has the following features:
- provides GUI interface to controlling Roomba (MIDI not required)
- acts as normal MIDI interface to any MIDI application
- supports up to 16 Roombas, one per MIDI channel.
- responds to MIDI notes 32-127 as tones on Roomba beeper,
- MIDI notes 32-127 play corresponding pitch, velocity is duration in 1/64ths-second increments
- MIDI note 24 turns vacuum motor on-n-off for bass drum fun
- MIDI note 25 blinks the LEDs, velocity is color of Power LED
- MIDI note 28 & 29 spins left or right, velocity is speed of spin
- can act as general multi-Roomba test system
- written in Java, but acts like Mac OS X application”



 


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