{"id":229,"date":"2009-07-19T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/music-hack-day-my-percussion-machine.php"},"modified":"2009-07-19T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T12:05:00","slug":"music-hack-day-my-percussion-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/07\/music-hack-day-my-percussion-machine.php","title":{"rendered":"Music Hack Day : My percussion machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week we all turned up at the Guardian offices for Music Hack Day<\/a> not quite knowing what to expect but prepared for most eventualities. I still did not know what to hack together and no one I knew had any real ideas yet.<\/p>\n

There was not really an opportunity to find anyone else to do something with so I decided to do something with my old WaveFinder DAB radio, possibly doing something with RadioDNS and linking it to some of the sponsoring online services. Unforchantly a couple of hours later I still could not get the hardware working on my laptop so decided to play with the Arduino and make some kind of music machine as a learning exercise.<\/p>\n

After a lot of fiddling, scavenging, stripping wires, battling with wifi, messing around with hardware, lots of chatting, a late night visit to Avenue Q, some Geocaching, three hours sleep, and drinking lost of tea the percussion machine was born.<\/p>\n

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At the end of the event I had the device using a couple of servos to play some bottles, a cup, a bottle-top maracas-tamborine-like-thing, and a can. The creation was not a practical hack, but something to learn from while I was creating it, and an excuse to be a little silly. I think the Guardian article<\/a> sums it up well. I quote… <\/p>\n

Come 2pm on Sunday, we gathered to see what people had come up with. Now, some of the presentations were a little \u2013 how can I put this \u2013 impenetrable for a non-techie like me. Others, however, seemed happy to admit they’d spent the night messing around on a project for no other benefit than their (and our) own amusement (step forward the Percussion Machine, a hardware hack using an Arduino microcontroller that involved turning some empty beer bottles into a drumkit).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I did not take the presentation overly seriously but everyone appeared to enjoy the stupidity of the creation. There were also a lot of great hacks<\/a> that I enjoyed and are worth a look though. In the end I was awarded a prize by tinker.it<\/a> for being so creative in using things around us to build the machine with, that was nice. :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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