When looking through existing Arduino drum kit projects, [joekutz] noticed that most of them just used the microcontroller as an input for an existing MIDI device. That’s fine if you’re just ...

The USB host shield and MIDI shield are crucial components that enable the Arduino to communicate with other MIDI devices, such as synthesizers and drum machines. This setup allows the barcode ...

Against all odds, William Sun Petrus did manage to find one novel use for the hardware; he turned it into a makeshift drum machine that ... a connected Arduino recognizes which hammer was pressed ...