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Drum Wear: build a drum kit into your pants
Drum wear gives aspiring drummers a fully portable and fun drum kit anywhere they go. The system uses force-sensitive sensors built right into pants and shoes to create corresponding drum noises.
- Dav3xor 17y agoCool! BTW, if you're interested in doing this sort of thing -- 2-wire piezo buzzers from radio shack make good velocity sensitive sensors. I built an electronic drumset out of PVC pipe and plywood and taught myself how to play drums with it.
- tricky 17y agoIs it as simple as wiring them to a 1/4" jack and plug them into some sort of midi "drum brain", or is there more to it?
- Dav3xor 17y agoYep, that's the entirety of the circuit. This will work with any drum brain I know about (but it's been a few years since I did it, so YMMV...) This worked with an old Alesis D4 that I bought at a pawn shop. And I know it'll work with a DM5, etc etc. You can play with materials a little for the surface -- I used plywood and mousepads. Mousepads are a little soft (the traditional 3/8" thick foam rubber with a cloth backing type...), Different thicknesses of plywood affect sensitivity, etc. If there isn't enough mass, false/double triggering happens. It's a fun thing to try, and the materials are really cheap (and there are DIY drum trigger boards you can find on the internet now...)
- hack_edu 17y agoOkay, lets take this to another level. Throw a couple dozen more sensors on there and you can have bluetooth-enabled keyboard pants. Hell, slice one of those roll-able keyboards in half and bond them to the garmet.
- anigbrowl 17y agoCue the avalanche is that a snare drum in your pant, or are you just happy to see me jokes :) Seriously, though it's a simple idea I agree with some of the blog commenters - this has real commercial potential. You should protect the IP in some way even if your plan is to keep it open source, so someone else doesn't patent troll the idea. Also, seeing as how it's winter, now about a version that goes down your sleeves and plugs in to a pair of gloves or mittens, making everything into a drumkit? Lots of luck with this - it's a little crazy but in a cool way. Inexplicably, it reminds me of those shoes with rollers in the heels...not exactly useful, but so much fun that that it's irresistible.
- oliverkofoed 17y agoThinkGeek has two shirts which are highly related: one features a drumset: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/ac0b/ http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/ac0b/ and the other has a guitar you can strum: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/c498/ http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/c498/ The negative part about them is that the gear is not extrudes a little bit from the shirt itself.
- martian 17y agoThis reminds me of the RJDJ iPhone app: http://rjdj.me/ http://rjdj.me/
- jamesbritt 17y agohttp://www.last.fm/music/Turing+Machine/_/(Got+My)+Rock+Pants+On http://www.last.fm/music/Turing+Machine/_/(Got+My)+Rock+Pant...
- jamesbritt 17y agoVery nice. And now I know how I can build that car dashboard drum kit I've always wanted.
- pkulak 17y agoGotta have something in both shoes too, or at least the right one (if you're right handed). That could give you hi-hat, snare, and kick drum, which is just about all you need. Damn, would that ever be awesome.