Fed up with his neighbor, he created a machine that blocks reggaeton from a distance: «I intend to share it»

“I made a device to detect reggaeton on the neighbor’s speaker and attack his Bluetooth. I will definitely post the demo and code tomorrow.” It all started like this.

That tweet from the Argentine inventor Ronì Bandini It already has over fifty thousand likes on X and epic support. In their over three thousand comments, users, like warriors of the Crusades, defend their invention which, a priori, would seem to be a grain of sand in the fight to eradicate the genre.

“And so a single man improved the quality of life in half of Latin America”; “He deserves the Nobel Peace Prize”; “They say there is no such thing as good or bad technology, but this is undeniably good,” are some rallying cries.

But Roni doesn’t think like many of those who wrote to him. He just doesn’t want his neighbor to disturb him..

“I don’t listen to reggaeton or care, but It’s not a crusade against gender.. “I invent machines for countercultural, recreational purposes, with artistic objects, and in this case it was born from the fact that my neighbor had a fairly large speaker and in the morning he played reggaeton music”, clarifies Bandini to Clarín.

His anti-reggaeton machine is, according to Roni himself, a device inspired by the old TV-B-Gone to turn off the annoying televisions in bars and restaurants.

Is called Reggaeton is leaving and its purpose is “hopefully to turn off and even disrupt reggaeton being played on nearby Bluetooth speakers.” It works with artificial intelligence (AI), “in particular Machine learning”.

Bandini, 49, describes himself as “Creator”. He studied programming, but also “does things” in electronics, 3D modeling and works with artificial intelligence. He also plays in a band, Go Cangrejo, and it’s his favorite genre, even though he listens to a lot of rock, classical music and jazz, It’s funk. “James Brown, Prince, Dante Spinetta,” he points out.

Are you thinking of marketing Reggaeton Be Gone?

“I never had the idea of ​​making it a commercial project. I make many machines with the same perspective, which is to investigate a topic, generate a type of conversation with makers, explain what I do. This is just a prototype that I intend to share. I plan to perfect a tutorial and post the code, instructions, and more. I posted instructions for 49 or 50 machines.”

Roni has machines for (and for) everything: to read the bell, to listen to the plants, an alpargata book, the Furby that speaks like Borges, the one that anticipates power cuts, the washing machine that informs about the dollar.

Regarding his creative process, the creative says that he “continuously thinks about ideas” and that not all of them are realized because “in some cases he encounters a technical problem or lacks some resources.

His biggest obstacle isn’t so much creativity, but everything related to legal issues. Customs obstacles, for example: “The procedures are absurd and then the projects are blocked. Then I take them back and they move on. I constantly think about the machines to make.”.

In the Medium article she shared alongside her tweet, Roni details how she created the anti-reggaeton machine. And in the end he reveals the question that many of us would surely have asked: Did it work with your neighbor?

“Between the wall, the device did not disconnect the speaker, but it generated enough interference to the point that the neighbor changed position. It’s definitely not a success, but it’s not a defeat either,” he admits.Creator”. So yes, he is on the right track.