Skype interviews are kind of fun!

Dashed home on my temperamental moped this morning to do a phone interview with Frits L. from Let's Make Robots, a robotics guru from Denmark whose adorable little Yellow Drum Machine robot has been making the rounds on the interwebs. Yellow Drum Machine (YDM) is a tiny, Johnny 5-looking rover programmed to seek out sturdy standing surfaces, roll over to them, tap out a little beat on the surface, and sample and remix himself on the fly. If you haven't seen the vid of this little guy, you should check it out:



John, one of our audio guys on the Share.tv crew, pointed us to the video and I immediately contacted Frits for an interview. He was so good to oblige! We talked for awhile about the nuts and bolts of hobby robotics, then got into the more philosophical issues concerning the subtle differences that separate robots from coffee machines. I'll be editing this feature all week, and it should be part of next week's episode of Share.tv.

Stay tuned!