shipping update

We have received our LED strip and the plastic colored films in the mail! still waiting on the drum kit-kit, the 10 mouse pads, and the kick pedal. once these are received, we should have all necessary materials to begin assembling the drum pads and connecting them to the arduino and MIDI shield. More information will be provided when it is available. Take it easy.

Learning stuff and producing ideas

Today we talked to our project advisor and learned some information that we will need in order to power our LEDs in the proper way, while still allowing the Arduino board to control them. Now we have to get transistors!

We were referred to adafruit.com, as they have many products that might come in handy and loads of information on how to do things, more specifically, how to wire LEDs to an arduino!

A potential idea for incorporating 3D printable parts into the project is making 2 L-brackets that would be given the role of drumstick holder.

For the laser-cutter, we will most likely use it to cut the 7 inch diameter metal circles out of our sheetmetal we will need for our drum pads

Finally, we have received the shipment confirmation of the Drum Kit - Kit that we need to read the MIDI signals! (shown below)

Drum Kit - Kit Arduino Shield

more information coming soon. stay tuned my friends. Take it easy.

Begun ordering necessary materials

We have begun ordering the materials we are going to need for this project:

$25.95 - drum kit-kit (reads MIDI signals) and 2 more piezos
$18.31 - drum pedal
$35.93 - 10 mouse pads, 16.4ft strip of white LEDs, color tinted plastic sheets

all we need is the material to build the stand to hold everything up and together! this may include a few 3D printed parts

we also created a GroupMe so that we may all chat together since some group members cannot group chat without it

Lets Get it Started in Heah

Today is the first day in an epic journey...we have created the blog post... even though we have already started our project. So, we will post some things about what we have researched/found so far soon! Stay tuned Light Beat fans!

Project Name: Light Beats

Project Members:  Vlad Dinov Eric Beauregard, Brett Harding, Jake Fein

Quick project synopsis: We are creating an electric tutorial drum set using the Arduino board! It is an drum set that is playable with the aid of a computer running a musical application that will be able to teach you to learn drum beats using LEDs that will be associated with each drum pad and the drum pedal. it will also have a Glow-in-the-Dark mode where the LEDs will stay on continuously, making the drum set playable in the pitch dark! perfect for concerts and cool effects!!

**These developments happened before we created the blog. other parts of the timeline not listed include: finding team members, creating a GroupMe chat group for communication, brainstorming ideas via late night ooVoo calls.

Even though we have already started our project, here is some videos about what our project will contain:

This first video shows a quick demonstration of someone hitting the drum pads and the arduino sending the sounds to some output for sound.

This second video shows how we can edit some of our code so that we can tune each of the drum pads correctly. This will come in handy once we reach that point of making sure the drums are sending their signal correctly when hit.

We will have more for you when the time comes, but for now, take it easy.