iSticks (with iSteelPan and iTaiko)

Team

• David Ayman Shamma

Description

Using some conductive fabric and metal rods, you can drum on any modern touch device. There is an instructable to tell you how to make your own.  

I built two apps for the sticks:  iTaiko (for the iPhone) and iSteelPan (for the iPad).  The steel pan app also has a whack-a-mole mode to teach you how to play.

iSteelPan with drumsticks from ayman on Vimeo.

In the iSteelPan app, the accelerometer is used as a proxy for pressure (softer strikes are somewhat attenuated).

Links

Instructable:  http://bit.ly/istick

Video demo: http://vimeo.com/11788466

Tools, Platforms and APIs Used

Conductive Fabric

Metal

Cotton

Objective-C (iPad/iPhone Native) 

Samples from:

• http://freesound.org
• http://www.phunkynutts.com/steeldrum.php