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Arduino Drummerbot and the awesome song

Priya KuberMarch 29th, 2012

The little drum playing robot designed by Steffest makes great music.

You control it like most drum computers: you draw the beats on a pattern of sixteen dots, perfectly suited for generic 4/4 rhythms.
There a 8 lines, each controlling 1 servo motor.

Most of the servo’s have a percussion item both on the left and the right, that’s why the pattern buttons have 3 states: off, left, right.
That makes 14 distinct percussion sounds for the drummerbot.

The pattern in the webbrowser is packed into a string, which get send to the Arduino via HTTP.
You can use a wifi module and a http server on the Arduino, or you can use another device attached to the Arduino through a comm port.
The Arduino receives the string, unpacks it back to a pattern and simple loops over the steps controlling each servo.

The Arduino code can be got from here. The music did make me smile! 🙂

[Via: GeekyGadgets and Steff’s blog]

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3 Responses to “Arduino Drummerbot and the awesome song”

  1. jantje Says:

    This is what one may call techno music

  2. Rodolfo Says:

    what a cute and cleaver application! It has potential!

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