The Bit-52’s: Robot band plays the The B-52’s ‘Rock Lobster’
09.09.2010
10:34 am

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The B-52's

 
This is rather brilliant! YouTube user bd594 describes his inspiration below:

This is dedicated to all fans of The B-52’s who are also known as the “Worlds Greatest Party Band”. This idea has been simmering in my mind for the last couple of years and after many months of procrastinating it is finally complete. I was also motivated to finish my robot band after seeing a YouTube Video from “The Trons” from New Zealand.

The Bit-52’s consist of:

Fred’s Vocals - TI99/4a computer, speech synthesizer and terminal emulator ii module
Kate and Cindy’s Vocals - Two HP Scanjet 3C scanners, UBunto and sjetplay written by NuGanjaTron
The Guitar, Keyboard, Cow Bell, Cymbal and Tambourine are all controlled by various types of push/pull solenoinds for a total of 23. The Solenoids are powered by four ULN2803 darlington drivers and everything is controlled by two PIC16F84A microcontrollers

(via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk)

Posted by Tara McGinley | 2 Comments
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Sep 11, 2010
koenski from: http://koenski-beterweter.blogspot.c says:

The B-52´s I listened to all day long with my cool looking friends back in the early eighties, when there was so much new to discover, musicwise back then.
And now this masterpiece; every little detail is there!.
I love creativity of all kinds and this one put a big smile on my face today.Thnx for tha.
(Btw, I posted this on my blog, hope ya don´t mind..:http://koenski-beterweter.blogspot.com/

Sep 11, 2010
George Gimarc (Punk Diary 1970-1982) says:

Finally! A new take on the B52’s with just as refreshing a new sound as the original was different from the rest of the ‘70s lame-O’s. Zow! If only I could get this on a 7inch single with a picture sleeve…..

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