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Bleep Labs has reintroduced the ThingamaWEEN - an anthropmorphic robot synthesizer, styled for Halloween. 
Four options are available:

Bella Lubleepy - vampire
The Ghost of Robot TB1X - robo-ghost
Jack-O-Lumen - jack-o-lantern
The Modern Prometh-O-Lux - monster

The Thingamaween retails for $130. 

 

This video showcases the Thingamakit, a fun DIY project that lets you build your own anthropomorphic noise maker.
Comes with:

detailed instructions
fully labeled components
simply layed out circuit board with minimal hand wiring.
2 ready to blink LEDacles
control panel and face stickers

 

Last year, we published an item about the animatronic robots of Showbiz Pizza Palace/Chuck E Cheese getting reprogrammed to perform gangsta rap, including a cover of Miss New Booty.
Lots of people have fond memories of visits to see these cheesy robots as kids, and videos of the reprogrammed robots went on to become hits on [...]

 

 
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Remember David Byrne’s Julio - the creepy realistic animatronic singer?
Byrne has written a post from the opening, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. In the post, he elaborates on the show and his throughts on his man-machine:
I don’t think what I’ve addressed thus far really engages the supposed theme of [...]

 

Says cinnamonjuly: “I plugged up my Bleeplabs Thingamagoop to my EMS Synthi and it immediately started using the Synthi as some kind of weird transmitter to contact home.”

 

Isidore is the funky modular synth of DamagedMeat:
This video is a demonstration of the latest version of Isidore with a screen in the head displaying waveforms and Lissajou shapes comin’ out from the MFB Videoscope module.
All sounds by Doepfer A100 except micromoog bass in the 1st part and little melody in the 2nd one. The [...]

 

RozzoBianca is a Swiss “Robotical Freak Show” - a band with 4 different robots playing guitar, drums, megaphone and accordion made out of old industrial parts, controlled by MIDI, plus a singing skeleton.
Here’s a video of them in action:

via MusicThing