shinyhappyrainbows

When you go a-scrolling, entering the search terms "drum robot" into your default "sengine," a few things come up, like Compressorhead's heavy metal covers, a million dollar pneumatic actuated robotic live band. Then there are the usual, incomplete, or niche, hobbyist things, basic busker gimmicks or student science projects. All good, valid stuff, sure, but none of it generalised. Well, there's some SparkFun stuff and an art project, too, but the generalisations are perhaps... too general? So, generalising a robotic drum kit development kit seems the unfilled niche. So that's what I've started to turn my own drumming robot system towards. Meanwhile, looking at the other kind of drum robot, arguably the first modern ones at least, analog drum machines, the latest crop of 606 clones from both Roland and Behringer, have MIDI, a luxury the originals couldn't afford while aiming for a sub-1980s pricepoint with 1980s tech in the 1980s. MIDI is the l