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Originally Posted by Molten
This may just be me, but this would seem to take the visual appeal of the robot. I mean, yes it would play the music. And the signal that the game receives would be the same. But the observer primarily sees the buttons getting pushed. That is what they watch while the whole thing is working. If you take that away, you kind of lose the appeal.
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I agree Molten. I have thought about the various ways one might do this, and to me it is important to have a camera/sensor watching a screen rather than just intercepting the video signal, and to have a mechanical interface operating the guitar rather than interfacing electrical signals. The whole idea is to have a robot that can match what a human oppenent does, so it would greatly distract from it and be unfair for the robot electronics to be directly tied into the game or video in any way. A system like this is for entertainment, or perhaps fundraising, and all the fun is in watching the robot match what a human can do. An all-electronic system would be simpler, but would not be interesting at all to watch.