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"title": "Drumset Keyboard",
"description": "I turned a kid's drumset toy into a computer keyboard. I like making stupid keyboards.",
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"text": "Should I pull a @[Foone](https://twitter.com/Foone) and turn this toy drumset into a Terrible Input Keyboard Device™ ?"
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"text": "Extremely early tease of Terrible Input Device Drumset Keyboard™ — more this weekend (I hope) /cc @[Foone](https://twitter.com/Foone)"
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"text": "Join me on an absurd journey to turn this VTech KidiBeats drum set into a keyboard.... a computer keyboard!!"
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"text": "Let’s crack it open and take a look inside. Small main board, lots of wires going to the drums/cymbal. Runs on 3 AA 1.5V batteries."
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"text": "Unscrewing mainboard show a bunch of smd parts and blobbed chip (BOOOOO). I want to power it from USB, and I figure giving it 5V probably won’t hurt it... and it works!"
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"text": "Hooking up multimeter to one of the drum keys to see if it goes high or low on contact (it goes high.. other lead was connected to VDD)."
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"text": "Looking inside one of the drums. A couple smaller boards to determine a drum hit from the conductive pads on the drumhead"
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"text": "Testing out intercepting the drum hits and powering it all from the Arduino Micro"
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"text": "aaaand TADA!!! Now you can have a sweet drum solo while you type on your computer. ASCII codes for letters, some cymbal smashing for punctuation, and a rimshot for Enter. A Terrible Keyboard™ /tagging @[Foone](https://twitter.com/Foone) for judgement"
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"text": "aaaaand TADA again!! This time it’s a MIDI drum set to lay down sick beats (e.g in GarageBand) 🥁🎹🎶🎵"
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