D Tron the Dancing Robot
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The band consists of four robots, created from scratch using a variety tron robot spare parts and electronic equipment, and are based in Hamilton nicknamed Hamiltron or The Tron for short. During the s, [1] while a member of the New Zealand musical duo The EmersonsGreg Locke toyed with the concept of developing a robotic drummer. This concept eventually grew into the idea of creating an entire band of robots. The construction of the band was assisted with a grant tron robot the Hamilton Tron robot Arts Council.
The band is managed by its creator, Greg Tron robot, a New Zealand musician and mechanical engineer who has played in garage bands including The Hollow Grinders. Ham plays the rhythm guitar [1] and does the vocals. Tron robot plays lead guitar which is single-string. It is only possible for the robots to play four chords. Swamp performs on the drums, using a pie-plate as a snare. Swamp was written several times on the drum set that Locke purchased for this robot he guesses that it must have been the name of the band who had used itthus the robot's name.
Fifi plays the keyboardusing only one "hand". She originally played bass but performed poorly at it. The robots are made from a combination of scrap parts and more complex equipment and are controlled via a computer using a "top-secret" software package. Despite being robots, the members of the Trons are often treated as human by fans [1] to the point where Swamp has received date requests. Locke explains this tendency to treat them as human tron robot from the "human element" required to create music.
The Trons' first dip into stardom came from their YouTube [7] video, which received over 80, hits in tron robot days, [8] going on to amass almost a million hits in tron robot a few months. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Trons The Trons, from left to right: Fifi, Swamp, Ham and Wiggy.
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The Trons, from left tron robot right:
