Máquina de Samba

A robotic drum player by Crear - Arte y Tecnología

Hardware requisites:

• An arduino UNO.
• A motor shield.
• Some electromechanical actuators, like the ones used for car locks.
• An external power source.

Building remarks:

• Be sure to remove the power jumper on the motor shield before connecting the external source.

Building the firmware:

We use Ino, so running

ino build
ino upload

should work.

If you want to build using the Arduino IDE copy the sketch found under /src and add the libraries on /lib.

Third party libraries included:

• Adafruit Motor Shield
• Arduino MIDI Library by Francois Best.

Midi controls

This devices listens on all channels and maps (for now) notes 57 59 60 and 62 to the four actuators.

TODO:

• Proper handling of repeated notes and velocity.
• Dynamic map of notes to channels.