drumkit

LARS - Looping Automated Rhythm Station

This is a simple drum machine / loopstation. It’s made for three hand-wound solenoids mounted to a tambourine. It is controlled by a Raspberry Pi Pico on a custom PCB.

Please take a look at the auto-generated documentation.

Also see this blog post for some more context.

Quick Start

Initialize your local repo and prepare the build:

git clone https://git.xythobuz.de/thomas/drumkit.git
cd drumkit
git submodule update --init
cd pico-sdk
git submodule update --init
cd ..
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cd ..

Then you can build new binaries like this:

make -Cbuild -j4

For the first time, flash as usual using the mass storage bootloader (hold BOOTSEL while pluggin in the Pico). After the firmware has been flashed once you can just use the included flash.sh to avoid having to hold the button. Use debug.sh to open a serial console via USB.

Documentation

You can find the documentation here on GitHub pages.

The docs are built using mdbook, licensed as MPL-2.0. Get the latest release from GitHub for a pre-built binary if you want to test changes to the docs locally.

./docs/generate_docs.sh serve

This will open your browser to a local development instance of the docs.

Hardware Connections

These are the used pins on the first prototype. Follow these if you want to build your own version without the included PCB design.

Pin 1    GP0    I2C0 SDA
Pin 2    GP1    I2C0 SCL

Pin 29   GP22   Output Channel A
Pin 31   GP26   Output Channel B
Pin 32   GP27   Output Channel C

Pin 34   GP28   Vbat (ADC2)

Pin 11   GP8    Button 1
Pin 12   GP9    Button 2
Pin 16   GP12   Button 3
Pin 19   GP14   Button 4

Pin 22   GP17   Encoder A
Pin 24   GP18   Encoder B
Pin 21   GP16   Encoder Click

Pin 14   GP10   LED 1
Pin 15   GP11   LED 2
Pin 17   GP13   LED 3
Pin 20   GP15   LED 4

License

The firmware of this project is licensed as GPLv3. A copy of the license can be found in COPYING.

It uses the Pi Pico SDK, licensed as BSD 3-clause, and therefore also TinyUSB, licensed under the MIT license.

The code in src/encoder.c is derived from mathertel/RotaryEncoder and therefore licensed as BSD 3-clause.

The docs are built using mdbook, licensed as MPL-2.0.

The PCB SVG files in the documentation are displayed using svg-pan-zoom, licensed as BSD-2-Clause.

The 3D PCB files in the documentation are displayed using three.js, licensed as MIT.

Some code in docs/src/js/3d.js is derived from a blog post of Michal Jirků.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

See <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

The schematic and PCB design of this project is licensed under the CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 - Strongly Reciprocal (CERN-OHL-S-2.0+) or any later version. A copy of the license can be found in LICENSE.

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