Edward Deaver

Making of MIDI Kickdrum / Maker Faire Experience
  • May 01, 2023
  • 04 mins read

Making of MIDI Kickdrum / Maker Faire Experience

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.

 Initial Research: Electromechanical Sound
  • Mar 01, 2023
  • 03 mins read

Initial Research: Electromechanical Sound

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.