Air Drums With the Raspberry Pi Pico @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

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No matter how good you are at air guitar, you’re never going to conjure the sound of an electric arpeggio without some sort of material. But imagine if you could. And imagine if we’re not talking about air guitar, but air drums? That’s just what Ang, Devin, and Kaiyuan have conjured up. Here’s more from Hackaday:

Drum kits are excellent fun and a terrific way to learn a sense of rhythm. They’re also huge and unwieldy. In contrast, air drums can be altogether more compact, if lacking the same impact as the real thing. In any case, students [Ang], [Devin] and [Kaiyuan] decided to build a set of air drums themselves for their ECE 4760 microcontroller class at Cornell.

As per the current crop of ECE4760 projects, the build relies on the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller as the brains of the operation. The Pico is charged with reading the output of MPU6050 inertial measurement units mounted to a pair of drum sticks. The kick pedal itself simply uses a button instead.

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• Source: https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/05/air-drums-with-the-raspberry-pi-pico-raspberry_pi-piday-raspberrypi/