{"id":277,"date":"2011-02-03T12:29:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2011-02-03T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:32:13","slug":"the-hand-drummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/the-hand-drummer\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Hand Drummer’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the past few weeks, I was thinking.. What would be a small portable & cool interface for the Drum Kit Kit AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If you have yet to see this really cool (Arduino based) Product of ours, it is a mashup of an Arduino, and our original Drum Kit Kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is a quick YouTube video, of an Acrylic Hand Drummer interface for both of the Drum Kit Kit’s. The key to getting it to work, (an the part that I spent the most time developing) is the sliver or rubber hose that is pinched between tapped acrylic pieces. This creates a vibration reducing hinge that stops the other piezo sensors from picking up a ‘false hit’. \u00a0Within the sketch, I trimmed the sensitivity to be optimal. \u00a0Since the original code for the Drum Kit allows for individual piezo sensitivity, this works incredibly well.<\/p>\n

Another thing that I learned was that the ‘shorter throw’ digits, both thumbs & pinky actually needed to be a little more sensitive, as the shorter amount of ‘throw’ yields a smaller signal.<\/p>\n

Lastly, it was revealed that being a total Rockband Ace on my PS3, doesn’t mean that I can tap out beats that impress. \u00a0I’ve shown this to a few musician clients at the Labs, and yes, with musical talent, this sounds much more impressive. \u00a0Enjoy the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past few weeks, I was thinking.. What would be a small portable & cool interface for the Drum Kit Kit AI. If you have yet to see this really cool (Arduino based) Product of ours, it is a mashup of an Arduino, and our original Drum Kit Kit. Here is a quick YouTube video, of an\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spikenzielabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}