<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.element14.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!</title><link>/challenges-projects/project14/simplemusicmaker/b/blog/posts/dum-de-dum-the-cardboard-drum</link><description>Introduction 
 Making a Cheap Drum Machine 
 Components and Methods 
 Construction Details 
 Testing and Playing 




Introduction
By a couple of months I have started a project for creating a series of low-cost, open source, electronic musical instrumen</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/simplemusicmaker/b/blog/posts/dum-de-dum-the-cardboard-drum</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2018 06:06:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7f8670aa-1fa6-4c3f-89f6-05e518dd9b4b</guid><dc:creator>jomoenginer</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;This is a very cool project and very well implemented.&amp;nbsp; It reminds me of the Nintendo LABO kits.&amp;nbsp; Add a Nintendo Switch interface and you&amp;#39;ll have a nice build your own &lt;span&gt;Dum-De-Dum kit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Thanks for sharing this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4967&amp;AppID=199&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/simplemusicmaker/b/blog/posts/dum-de-dum-the-cardboard-drum</link><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 09:15:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7f8670aa-1fa6-4c3f-89f6-05e518dd9b4b</guid><dc:creator>acdd</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Nice little project but : no code for Arduino ? no schematics ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;I&amp;#39;m afraid I do not understand the interest ... without this information&amp;nbsp; : &lt;span title=""&gt;thanks for reassuring me :-))&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;&lt;span title=""&gt;Regards&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4967&amp;AppID=199&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/simplemusicmaker/b/blog/posts/dum-de-dum-the-cardboard-drum</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:19:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7f8670aa-1fa6-4c3f-89f6-05e518dd9b4b</guid><dc:creator>danzima</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Love this! Any time I see a concert I&amp;#39;m always trying to figure out what equipment everyone on stage is using, and I&amp;#39;m pretty sure this would leave me fascinated. And I love the velocity sensitivity, that&amp;#39;s so important to making electronic drum parts feel more human and musical.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4967&amp;AppID=199&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/simplemusicmaker/b/blog/posts/dum-de-dum-the-cardboard-drum</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:20:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7f8670aa-1fa6-4c3f-89f6-05e518dd9b4b</guid><dc:creator>luislabmo</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Nice project Enrico!.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Luis&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4967&amp;AppID=199&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/simplemusicmaker/b/blog/posts/dum-de-dum-the-cardboard-drum</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:08:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7f8670aa-1fa6-4c3f-89f6-05e518dd9b4b</guid><dc:creator>ntewinkel</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#39;s really cool, Enrico!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brilliant idea using weight sensors that way &lt;span&gt;[View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-7f8670aa-1fa6-4c3f-89f6-05e518dd9b4b/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-Nico&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4967&amp;AppID=199&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/simplemusicmaker/b/blog/posts/dum-de-dum-the-cardboard-drum</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:01:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7f8670aa-1fa6-4c3f-89f6-05e518dd9b4b</guid><dc:creator>mathias_magdowski</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;What type of pressure sensor have you used? We have recently built a staircase piano and just used a Makey Makey as well as some cardboard, aluminum foil and some foam to create a very cheap pressure-activated contact, see this videos: &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.eit.ovgu.de/Aktuelles/Campusdate+2018.html" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.eit.ovgu.de/Aktuelles/Campusdate+2018.html"&gt;Campusdate 2018&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4967&amp;AppID=199&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/simplemusicmaker/b/blog/posts/dum-de-dum-the-cardboard-drum</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:08:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7f8670aa-1fa6-4c3f-89f6-05e518dd9b4b</guid><dc:creator>DAB</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Nice post.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have an old Radio Shack keyboard with a drum set in it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now you have me wanting to take it apart to see how they did the drum sensors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DAB&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4967&amp;AppID=199&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/simplemusicmaker/b/blog/posts/dum-de-dum-the-cardboard-drum</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:35:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7f8670aa-1fa6-4c3f-89f6-05e518dd9b4b</guid><dc:creator>carmelito</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Nice project..I am going to have to try out Hydrogen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;- Carmelito&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4967&amp;AppID=199&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/simplemusicmaker/b/blog/posts/dum-de-dum-the-cardboard-drum</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2018 14:42:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7f8670aa-1fa6-4c3f-89f6-05e518dd9b4b</guid><dc:creator>genebren</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Nice little build.&amp;nbsp; Your creativity is very evident in your choice of parts/materials.&amp;nbsp; This is a simple and elegant design.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gene&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4967&amp;AppID=199&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/simplemusicmaker/b/blog/posts/dum-de-dum-the-cardboard-drum</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2018 05:25:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7f8670aa-1fa6-4c3f-89f6-05e518dd9b4b</guid><dc:creator>fmilburn</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Very nice... I look forward to hearing it as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4967&amp;AppID=199&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/simplemusicmaker/b/blog/posts/dum-de-dum-the-cardboard-drum</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2018 05:17:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:7f8670aa-1fa6-4c3f-89f6-05e518dd9b4b</guid><dc:creator>jw0752</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Enrico,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Very inventive. I am really curious what it will sound like. I am guessing the pressure sense will control the amplitude and the initial input will trigger the output of a designed waveform to mimic a specific drum.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=4967&amp;AppID=199&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>