WORKSHOP
PULSE AND PATTERNS

A workshop where participants will build small electro-mechanical solo drum machines from single DC motors and small circuit boards. The workshop will experiment with different kinds of sounding materials (metal pieces, stones, springs, paper, etc), where the machines will oscillate freely and develop their own individual sound quality. Once built the machines will be used to explore fundamental musical structures.


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(1)

ATtiny45 motor control unit
a simple ATTiny45/85 sequencer with ten hard coded 16 step patterns.
pulse and patterns arduino sketch  
code based on the simple-sequencer by Rob Stave.
DIY Arduino ATTiny 45/85 programming shield





circuit layout diagram:




schematic:




list of patterns




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(2)

ATmega328 motor control unit
a simple button record & playback unit
code based on the recordAndPlaybackAtRate sketch by MrGrok
arduino sketch(zip)

circuit layout diagram
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schematic:


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ATtiny85 motor control unit
a simple button record & playback unit (not as precise as the previous circuit)
arduino sketch(zip)

circuit layout diagram:



schematic: