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.