MIDI Solenoid Drum Kit

Four 12 V solenoids swing printed mallets and a kick-drum beater from MIDI notes sent by your DAW to a Feather M4 over USB · 6 parts · 7 steps · By Ruiz Brothers and Liz Clark (Adafruit)

Gather the parts
Print the parts
Build the driver board
Wire jacks and solenoids
Assemble the case
Build the mallets and kick drum
Load the code and play from a DAW

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MIDI Solenoid Drum Kit

By Ruiz Brothers and Liz Clark (Adafruit) · Example build · 17 views · 0 remixes

Four 12 V solenoids swing printed mallets and a kick-drum beater from MIDI notes sent by your DAW to a Feather M4 over USB

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Estimated parts cost

3 of 6 parts priced

Difficulty

Moderate

Parts

6 parts · 9 pcs

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