I wanted a project that would combine a few interests of mine and make for a cool exhibit at Maker Faire Syracuse. This was filled with firsts. First time exhibiting at Maker Faire, first time making a MIDI Instrument, first time making an electromechanical instrument first real MaxMSP patch.

The stepper motor isn't fast enough and I don't have the power/money budget to push it there. My takeaway from this short journey into mechatronics is the human body is truly an amazing creation.

For my booth at Syracuse Maker Faire I'm building a robot (read "motorized" - robotic just sounds way better) kick drum and a step sequencer. This document is me sharing my initial research into these areas. I'm also going to try some new-to-me features of Ghost CMS in this post.

The creation of my Computer Science Bachelors capstone using NodeJS, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, openFrameworks, and Processing.