Nico-robot/microduck-wake-up-call

Wake-up Call

A performance for MicroDuck Got a Talent on the MicroDuck Arena: eight ducks, five different policies, one stage, singing Are You Sleeping, Brother John? as a round.

The star, on rollers, sings the first bar alone at the back of the stage. Then it skates down past a sleeping choir, one push a bar, and each duck it reaches wakes up and comes into the round. The rest of the choir wakes on the music, one entry a bar, until all eight sing the last bar together on a C major chord. Then they fall asleep again, and the star turns to the jury and quacks.

The troupe

Ducks	Policy	Robot	What it does
1, the star	policy.onnx here: Pollen's roller-sprint-2m reference, unchanged	rollers	skates, sings the lead, quacks
2	pollen-robotics/microduck-got-a-talent-reference	legs	sleeps seated, stands up and looks at the star
1	tfrere/microduck-move-base-sitstand	legs	sleeps seated, stands up
2	q2p/microduck-dizzy-duck	legs	stands up and pirouettes
1	RemiFabre/microduck-flamingo-cycle	legs	sleeps on one foot, switches feet
1	cdeplanne/microduck-policy-2	rollers	keeps still and sings the bass

Every borrowed policy is pinned to the commit linked above. Thank you to their authors for sharing them.

The music

Are You Sleeping, Brother John?, a traditional round in the public domain, at 126 beats a minute. The eight voices come in one bar apart, alternating two octaves, and each duck has a voice of its own.

Files

• policy.onnx and manifest.json: the star, a perpetual policy for the microduck on rollers.
• timeline.json: the whole performance (timeline_version 2): every duck's policy, place on the stage, commands, voice and song, as the Got a Talent guide describes them.