An iPad-Controlled Drum Machine That Plays Whatever You’ve Got

If you ’ve ever realized how much possible a box of ironic pasta has as a shakable instrument , you ’ll forthwith translate whyLorenzo Bravi ’s impinge on the Beat barrel machineis so tremendous . Because whatever you ’ve got on paw , from dry attic to bottle pack , suddenly becomes a existent - life drumfish sampling .

You do n’t ask to be a player , or have any kind of melodic timing , to be able-bodied to work it , either . The machine , which is link up to a series of wooden platform hiding actuator indoors , vibrates whatever you place on top — be it a java mug , or a batch of ninepins .

An Arduino contract care of all the processing and triggering , and the system of rules uses MIDI to turn the meter from a drum motorcar iPad app into the real - life sounds . With received tympan machine software you ’re stuck with a library of pre - recorded samples , or samples you get yourself . But with Lorenzo ’s founding , those samples can immediately be anything you get your hands on . [ Hit the BeatviaCreative Applications connection ]