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Making Music with Legos: The Galactic Wailers Sound Off

My kids loved this video. Three teens, calling themselves The Galactic Wailers have constructed instruments from Lego bits and pieces and Lego sensors. These are not robots, but they are instruments that incorporate sensors and other stuff used in lego robotics.  Legos are the coolest toys ever made.  It’s  over here is the newspaper article where I learned about this.

Here’s their really cool video where they describe their instruments and  perform the theme to Star Wars:

This sort of stuff inspires them. It’s over their heads, right now, but they start aiming higher. I think its great.

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3 Responses to “Making Music with Legos: The Galactic Wailers Sound Off”

  1. Sam Says:
    May 10th, 2009 at 5:58 am

    Hello, I’m Sam, the bass player for the Galactic Wailers. I’m really glad that your kids liked us. You’re probably right that this stuff is over their heads. The judges at the Robofest regional competition didn’t understand it in full either. Anyway, I don’t know if you’re familiar with Robofest, but despite the poor judjing at the regional competition, we went on to the world competition. And won every single possible award in our catagory. I’m sorry, that was just yesterday and I’m still really excited. There will be a new and improved video on youtube soon, including my new and improved instrument. You can tell your kids “Hi” from me, as they’ve probably never been talked to by someone on YouTube, and with some ideas and a room FULL of Legos, anything is possible.

  2. senorparrot Says:
    May 11th, 2009 at 4:15 am

    That’s great to hear how well you did. You deserved your success. We’,ll be looking for your new video.

    My oldest daughter is just 12 and the younger is 6, so they’re at the “assembly by looking at the picture” stage with their connects and Mindstorm, but you’ve given me some ideas on how we can start inventing things.

    Good luck on everything you do!

  3. Peter Says:
    May 12th, 2009 at 7:56 am

    Greetings! I am Peter, and I come to you to, first and foremost, thank you for the generous comments. It feels quite good to know that we’re already famous.

    And secondly, I am here to clarify a point. Our creations are, in fact, robots. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m very appreciative of everything you said. But I felt I should enlighten you–for lack of a better verb–on this specific point.

    You may be saying “What? How can the be robots? They’re controlled entirely by humans!” This is true… mostly. Autonomous robots take input from their surroundings (such as bumping into a wall with a touch sensor) and acting accordingly (turning around and moving the other way). Our robots act on the very same principle, except we provide the input, and the output is sound. They do require human interaction, but so do any robots designed to work directly with humans (such as a robot receptionist).

    Thank you once again for your comments, and may the force be with you!
    ~Peter

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