Beating your friends at Guitar Hero should be a skill built on a base of sweat and tears, but if that doesn’t work then cheat. Just like Pete Nikrin, an avid gamer who’s using robots in an attempt to become an electronic Rock God.
The 24 year old is a graduate of the robotics technology program in Minnesota, and his quest to built the ultimate guitar-playing robot has become his college project.
While Pete himself is still not “perfect” at the game, even by his own admission, he can score just over 90 percent in “easy” mode. His plucky robotic creation, meanwhile, is achieving 90 percent on “expert”.
The robot uses its own electronic eye to see the coloured notes as they flash up on the screen and this triggers a mechanical finger to fret, with a 60 millisecond gap between the note appearing on screen and a robotic response.
The aim is to achieve that Nirvana of 50 milliseconds, and therefore replicate the human eye-blink speed as well as getting the model to swagger like an over annebriated, crowd-pleasing performer.
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Via Grand Forks Herald
