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DrumPants 2.0 - Make music with your body

Last day to pre-order! Make music & play games,with this wearable MIDI drum machine.

DrumPants 2.0 - Make music with your body

Last day to pre-order! Make music & play games,with this wearable MIDI drum machine.

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San Francisco, United States

$46,731 USD by 223 backers

$39,670 USD by 187 backers on Jul 14, 2015

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DrumPants is an music instrument you can wear. It's a completely portable, natural, and fun way to play music. Tap out any beat or melody, directly from your body!

Play limitless sounds! 150+ built-in sounds including percussion, synthesizers, guitars, pianos, or upload your own custom sounds!

Control Abelton Live, Garageband, Logic Pro X, Reason, and hundreds of other apps wirelessly or over USB MIDI.

The Campaign is Not Over Yet!

Thanks so much to everyone for helping us reach our goal! Now you are assured you'll get your DrumPants, along with hundreds of other backers! We have some sweet new features requested by the DrumPants community that we want to make for you, if we can reach these Stretch Goals:

AS SEEN ON:

At only 1.5 lbs, DrumPants is a lightweight instrument you can wear either under or over clothing.

Step 1: Wear drumpads around your thigh.

Step 2: Wear foot pedals in your shoe.

Jam anywhere

Trigger visuals and sounds

Play or practice where a normal drum set can't go

Class-compliant MIDI USB instrument. Works with 300+ MIDI/OSC apps. Loop and record beats.

Attach to your existing drums as an acoustic MIDI trigger:

All rewards tiers come with our DrumPants App on Mac & Windows, with USB MIDI functionality and 150+ built-in sounds. The Pro, Neil Peart, and Dev kits also come with Bluetooth LE wireless connection to DrumPants Apps for Android & iOS, and Mac laptops.

We spent a lot of time with our customers and used their feedback to dramatically improve DrumPants. Here's how far we've come:

At the end of our Indiegogo campaign, we'll open all of our hardware and firmware to be customizable, upgradable, and allow the open source community to build on upon it. We will release our PCB schematics, Arduino library, and firmware for MIDI over Bluetooth LE.

We hope our codebase will provide an educational base for many Bluetooth musical and DIY instruments to come; and as a reference for other musical instrument manufacturers to implement MIDI over Bluetooth LE. Please contribute to make this a reality!

DrumPants product and packaging are designed and ready to go:

Our supply chain is set up and ready to go!

We just need your help to start production and to put the final polish to make our DrumPants apps compatible with our newest firmware!

We are researching the development of an assistive product called DrumPants TACS, for people with ALS and brain injuries. It helps you and loved ones throughout the day by allowing them to communicate easier and to control devices in their home.

We are looking for a community of users and testers. If interested, you can help by pledging to our campaign and by signing up for our DrumPants TACS mailing list to learn more: http://bit.ly/DrumPants-TACS

WHAT ARE YOU MAKING OPEN SOURCE?

To the best of our knowledge, we are the first company to make the firmware for our Bluetooth module (Broadcom BCM20736) open source. Our firmware converts MIDI messages from the main MCU and sends them over the air. It is a speed-optimized way to add the headers and timestamps necessary for communicating with iOS and Mac devices (and hopefully Android and Windows soon) using Apple’s MIDI over Bluetooth LE protocol.

At the end of the campaign, we will release all schematics and original design files for the DrumPants PCB, including the BOM, circuit diagrams, and PCB layout files.

We will also release the firmwares needed to run the hardware: an Arduino Due library+sketch for converting sensor data into individual hits and MIDI messages, the UI (LED control and knob/buttons), and EEPROM memory/storage management. It will also include a patch to the Arduino project source code for a class-compliant USB MIDI implementation on the Arduino Due ARM processor.

While we'd love to open source the DrumPants desktop/mobile apps, since they use commercial libraries, we are not allowed to release them publicly at this time. However, since DrumPants 2.0 will be fully MIDI compliant, you can still use the DrumPads, foot pedals, and any additional sensors without the DrumPants apps.

WHAT IS IN THE DEV KIT?

The dev kit is a bare DrumPants PCB. It does not include the DrumPad or foot pedal sensors, nor a battery or plastic enclosure.

It can be powered by the USB port or your own battery. You can attach your own sensors using standard 3.5mm TRRS headphone cables.

ARE THE DRUMPANTS ARDUINO COMPATIBLE?

Yes! DrumPants are an Arduino-compatible device. Upload your own Arduino sketches for maximum hackability! It's like an Arduino Due with Bluetooth LE module ready for your DIY projects.

CAN I MAKE MY OWN SENSORS TO WORK WITH DRUMPANTS?

Yes! We built the DrumPants with creatives and hackers in mind. You can use it as a brain for your own piezo drum triggers, or plug in any kind of resistive sensor to send MIDI CC data with bend sensors, photoresistive light detectors, ribbon sliders, and more!