Dancing Wall-E and Rhythmic Synth

Posted Jul 10th 2008 9:00PM by Juan Aguilar
Filed under: robots hacks, digital audio hacks

Whether you loved, hated, or didn't see Wall-E, it's hard not to fall in love with the iDance Wall-E toy. Connect him to an audio source and Wall-E will dance around like an epileptic Billy Bass.

[Gian Pablo Villamil] at NYC Resistor wondered whether it would work with his custom made Rhythmic Synth, and to his and our delight, it does! The Rhythmic Synth is an older project of his; it is a simple rhythm generator with 4 pitch knobs, 4 modulation knobs, and 4 phase switches. The case was taken from an old external Iomega CD-ROM drive.

Getting the Wall-E to dance isn't much of a feat, but something about the dancing combined with a synth with embedded lights just screams robot dance party, and that can never be wrong. We'd love to see the Wall-E dancing to a cleaner, more complete synth: maybe this one. Check out Wall-E busting a move after the break.

Reader Comments

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1. minus 1 point for Juan

-this doesnt deserve to be on Hday. There is nothing remotely hacked about this. This is what wall-e is supposed to do.

Cmon guys- you are way better than this!!!!

Posted at 2:55AM on Jul 11th 2008 by 36chambers

2. boring (and annoying).

stop repeating this bull

Posted at 3:14AM on Jul 11th 2008 by tjhow

3. I don't care what they say, Wall-E is clearly a rip of Johnny-5 of Short Circuit fame...

Posted at 8:49AM on Jul 11th 2008 by edd

4. disapointing

Posted at 9:41AM on Jul 11th 2008 by wall-f

5. I think he meant
"it's hard not to FAIL in love with the iDance Wall-E toy."

Posted at 9:43AM on Jul 11th 2008 by Really?!

6. while there are pictures of the rythmic sync build, there are no details. weak.

Posted at 1:11PM on Jul 11th 2008 by miked

7. I recognize that CD-ROM drive... the iQue or something like that. It was awful.

Posted at 10:38PM on Jul 11th 2008 by tom

8. A robot that convulses to noise, what an achievement...

Posted at 2:41AM on Jul 12th 2008 by Crash

9. Wall-E totally looks like the robot from "Short Circuit"... minus the cheesy 80's style of course

Posted at 8:28PM on Jul 16th 2008 by patrick

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