Comments on: Testing of my Arduino drum kit… http://www.mohoyt.com/blog/2007/06/19/testing-of-my-arduino-drum-kit/ I now walk into the wild... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:40:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: andy http://www.mohoyt.com/blog/2007/06/19/testing-of-my-arduino-drum-kit/comment-page-1/#comment-21392 andy Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:28:22 +0000 http://www.mohoyt.com/blog/2007/06/19/testing-of-my-arduino-drum-kit/#comment-21392 hello this is an awesome idea i really like it. I heard you were having problems with the skins vibrating too much. I have seen a few examples of people using mouse mats to dampen the vibration between the piezo and a metal plate. Perhaps you could try this technique of using a mouse mat disc. cut it to the same size as the piezo or slightly larger and place between the sounder and drum skin/cymbol?? i hope this idea would work as im going to be trying it soon!! You should also be able to specify the cut off frequency in software so that it only recognises a hit at a particular peak voltage from the sounder. Using this idea you could also specify minimum voltages to recognise and assign a lower volume/different drum sound. hope this helps! hello this is an awesome idea i really like it. I heard you were having problems with the skins vibrating too much. I have seen a few examples of people using mouse mats to dampen the vibration between the piezo and a metal plate. Perhaps you could try this technique of using a mouse mat disc. cut it to the same size as the piezo or slightly larger and place between the sounder and drum skin/cymbol?? i hope this idea would work as im going to be trying it soon!!

You should also be able to specify the cut off frequency in software so that it only recognises a hit at a particular peak voltage from the sounder. Using this idea you could also specify minimum voltages to recognise and assign a lower volume/different drum sound.

hope this helps!

]]> By: Mo http://www.mohoyt.com/blog/2007/06/19/testing-of-my-arduino-drum-kit/comment-page-1/#comment-17659 Mo Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:17:49 +0000 http://www.mohoyt.com/blog/2007/06/19/testing-of-my-arduino-drum-kit/#comment-17659 Hey Lisa, It didn't turn out as great as I would have liked it to initially... The whole Arduino software worked excellently and all of the hardware switches and so on worked great, however the main issue was with the principle of the idea - using Piezos on drum heads to pick up the noise. The vibration of the heads was picked up perfectly, the main problem was with the continuous vibrating of the heads causing the continuous triggering of the piezos and thus making it a pain to actually record or use at this stage. However, I believe that this can be altered and/or worked round fairly easily, which is what I will aim to try fairly soon. Stay tuned and thanks for the interest. Mo Hey Lisa,

It didn’t turn out as great as I would have liked it to initially… The whole Arduino software worked excellently and all of the hardware switches and so on worked great, however the main issue was with the principle of the idea – using Piezos on drum heads to pick up the noise. The vibration of the heads was picked up perfectly, the main problem was with the continuous vibrating of the heads causing the continuous triggering of the piezos and thus making it a pain to actually record or use at this stage. However, I believe that this can be altered and/or worked round fairly easily, which is what I will aim to try fairly soon. Stay tuned and thanks for the interest.

Mo

]]> By: Lisa T http://www.mohoyt.com/blog/2007/06/19/testing-of-my-arduino-drum-kit/comment-page-1/#comment-14774 Lisa T Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:55:30 +0000 http://www.mohoyt.com/blog/2007/06/19/testing-of-my-arduino-drum-kit/#comment-14774 Hello, How did your Arduino drum kit turn out? I have been wanting to do something quite similar with a percussion setup I am building for a piece I'd like to play. Do you have any recordings from your modified kit? Lisa Hello,
How did your Arduino drum kit turn out? I have been wanting to do something quite similar with a percussion setup I am building for a piece I’d like to play. Do you have any recordings from your modified kit?

Lisa

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