New
project of 2020 - Music Derby
I will remake Music Derby with smaller
size.
Music derby is a game in which the
horse advances by the musical note.
(1)Play music on the keyboard.
(2)Analyze the pitch with Arduino.
(3)The horse advances according to the
pitch of Do-Re-Mi (A,B,C in English).
For example, if the sound played is "Mi"(E),
the third horse moves forward, and if
the sound is "Fa"'(F), the fourth
horse moves forward.
(4)When one song is finished, the
horse at the head wins.
Older versions used an electric fan to
move the balloon.
12月31日
New Project
New
project of 2020 - Steam Punk Band
I will make another steam punk robot,
Steam-Panda.
Steam-Panda will be a musical robot
which plays gear shaped metallophone.
It will form Steam Pank Band with
other two robots, Steam Pun-kun and
Mimizu-kun.
Steam Pun-kun plays electric drums and
Mimizu-kun plays bells.
The Steam Pank Band will be smaller
than Robot Band and easy to carry.
I joind an event called Comic Market (Comiket)
97.
Comiket is not a maker event but event
for individual comic writers. They
sell their own handmade books and
goods mostly related to Japanese
cartoon animation.
I sold picture books about Robot Band
and performed robot fortune-telling.
There are many visitors from overseas.
People from Europe, Hong Kong and
Australia had experienced robot
fortune-telling.
There are many cosplayers in the
venue. There are also a company booths
where limited items are sold.
12月31日
お台場ガンダム
Who likes Gundam?
12月31日
2019年展示実績
2019年
[海外展示]4回(4都市)
# Maker Faire Bay Area [アメリカ]
今年で最後となってしまったので参加しておいてよかった。
#Kuala Lumpur Engineering Science Fair
[マレーシア]
MCMCという政府機関が主催するイベント。夜しか観光する時間がなかったが色々と案内してもらった。
#Maker Faire 深圳 [中国]
ハイライトに選ばれ企業用ブースを割り当ててもらえた。
#Maker Carnival 上海 [中国]
日本からの出展者が多かった。
[国内展示] セレスチャルハープの展示を始めた。
#Maker Faire京都 今年が初回の開催。地元の新聞に載った。
#Maker Faire Tokyo 暗室で初めて展示。
#NT広島
#NT京都
#NT鯖江 今年が初回の開催。
#NT金沢
#NT加賀
#NT名古屋
#NT札幌 今年が初回の開催。
#伊勢ギークフェア
#メイカーズバザール
#こどもの城 三重県。たぶん3回くらい行った。
#音楽の祭日
#けいはんな科学体験フェスティバル
地元精華町での展示。
#The Terminal KYOTO
町家での展示。
#コミケ ロボット川柳とおみくじで初参加。
[ロボットの大会]
#わんだほー ろぼっと か〜にばる
勝つことが目的ではないイベント。楽しかった。
#ROBO GONG
R わんだほーと似た雰囲気だが、規模が小さめで練習会に近い感じ。楽しかった。
[畳バンド] 神社や寺などでの演奏。演奏、ロボット無しで着ぐるみだけで参加することが多かった。
#京大11月祭
#東本願寺納涼盆踊り
#その他、色々
[参加できなかったやつ]
#Hello Maker Korea 上海と重なっていた。
#Maker Festival 台南 鯖江と重なっていた。
#Maker Faire
Honolulu 行こうかなと思っていたけど行かなかった。
I joined a maker event called NT Kaga
at shopping mall in Kaga city two
weeks ago. NT events are similar to
the Maker Faire, there are no
evaluation by organizer to exhibit. So
everyone who want to exhibit can have
a booth. I have joined NT Kyoto, NT
Hiroshima, NT Nagoya, NT Sapporo, NT
Nagoya, and NT Kaganzawa, NT Sabae
this eyar.
There is a differences between NT Kaga
and other events.
Usually exhibitors stay at different
hotels. But at NT Kaga, many
exhibiotrs goes to the same
accomodation. Kaga city give some
financial support and exhibitor can
have accomodation with cheap price.
Kaga is famous for hot spring, so past
two years we stayed hotel with hot
spring.
This year, most exhibitors stayed at
accommodation run by the city, which
has work rooms. Since we stayed the
same hotel, we had a lot of time to
exchange information. We also could
see someone repairing the robot in the
work room and it was fun.
Merry Christmas everybody!
There are some weird legends about
Christmas in Japan.
Most Japanese are not religious but
they love Christmas.
Many people eat fried chicken at
Christmas dinner.
On December 24th, Kentucky Fried
Chicken will have the highest sales in
Japan.
Some people consider eating chicken at
Christmas is a traditional Christian
practice.
Of course, this is wrong.
Another weird thing is about Santa
Claus.
Some Japanese think Santa Claus is
Finnish or Norwegian.
However, the real Santa Claus was
Turkish.
Saint Nicholas who worked for the poor
is the source of the legend.
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December 23rd used to be a national
holiday because it was empelors
birthday.
Now we have new empelor and the day
became working day.
I wnet to International Robot
Exhibition 2019 in Tokyo. It is an
exhibition that takes place every two
years.
This time I did not intend to go, but
everyone post videos so I could not
stand.
I saw a lot of crawlers using mecanum
wheels like those used in DJI robots.
But mecanum wheels may already be
obsolete. There are something with
caterpillar type. (They might have a
name, but I do not know. maybe mecanum
caterpillar.)
The first one in the video have to
stop so that the tire orientation is
vertical after the lateral movement,
but the last one do not have to.
ISome movies from Maker Faire Shenzhen
Robot Band & Robot Fortune Telling
Maker Parade
Exhibition Booths
12月11日
NT Sapporo
Maker event in Sapporo
12月8日
Flag game
I made small flags for robot flag
game.
Flag game is a game that was devised
by Japanese comedian.
12月8日
ロボット川柳
I am
making traditional Japanese playing
cards with robot picture.
There might be not this type of cards
in other countries.
The rule is simple.
Each card has one letter such as from
"A" to "Z".
There are two types of cards, reading
out cards and picture cards.
A reading out card has text.
If the letter for card is "A", text
would be like "Amazon used to be in
South America , but now, it moved to
North America Seattle.
The text should begin with "A" if the
letter for card is "A".
A picture card shoud have picture of
Amazon river or buildings of Amazon
corp.
Japanese children play this card game
in new year days.
One person reads text and other people
have to find and get the picuter card.
The person who has the most cards is
winner at the end.