MechBass

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MechBass is a robotic bass guitar that could put bass players out of business. James McVay built for his engineering honors project at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Witness it playing the Muse song "Hysteria." There's lots more about the machine at Hack A Day. Link -via Flavorwire


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I´m not a fan of playing bass with pick, but this is awesome.
An incredible achievement, well done. This line by Muse is always chosen as ´the best bass line ever´ and while my personal tastes are quite different, this is impressive. Very cool machine.
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More informative than I expected from the summary I've seen in a couple places so far.

One caveat is that at distances larger than the size of a magnet, the force will start to drop off as 1/r^4, which is really fast. If you had an unobtainium small magnet that can pick up a car at 10 cm, it would struggle to pick up a paperclip at 3 meters.
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