Kybernetica.com > The drum-playing robot
[Tasteful Future : the champagne of weblogs] Using MIDI files as input, P.E.A.R.T. (an acronym obviously created in tribute of Rush's Neil Peart) can have its pneumatic arms set-up at any drum set, running on sixteen drum channels with the capability of hitting each skin nineteen times per second.
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