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RoombaMidi: Roomba MIDI instrument

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MAKE pal and Roomba hacker Todbot show you how use the Roomba as a MIDI instrument, maybe we'll have this running at the Roomba fights - "The Roomba has a piezo beeper that can play tunes. You've heard it. And its motors make noise. Why not put them under MIDI control? So here is RoombaMidi: a Mac OS X application that creates a virtual MIDI instrument for use by any Mac OS X MIDI sequencer, like Ableton Live, Logic, and so on. If you don't have a sequencer or just want to play with this quickly, grab the awesome and free app MidiKeys. It's a little virtual MIDI keyboard." [via] - Link.

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Posted by: paulbeard@gmail.com on May 9, 2006 at 7:40 AM

I can hear it now:
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