Drum Tester Up and Running

We have implemented in hardware a way to test for missed hits! We soldered some special components to the drum kit circuit board that will allow us to measure when the drum kit sees a hit and when it misses. We then hooked those components up to a dsPIC chip and are able to monitor just about everything going on in the system to within about 1800 nanoseconds. We are going to spend a day or two calibrating the system, and then we can capture data all day long.

In the Meantime ........

....while our site is getting up to speed, ( Seems like thats how I start off every post. Feel free to yell at our webmaster, I do it all the time! ), we have an idea for a "missed hit" solution. It is most likely going to be a combination of things, but we think we have a strong idea of why people are getting missed hits. More importantly, I think we can fix it. We have captured a bunch of sample data from our scope (about 10,000 points per drum strike) and ran it through some monte carlo simulations in matlab. We were able to recreate a missed hit in matlab, and we have a solution (on a bar napkin at this point). Our next step will be to recreate a missed hit in the hardware, and go from there. To wet your whistle, here are some pretty pictures from our scope of single and double hits (not missed hits).

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Drum Sensor Pictures

While we get our site and advertising up and running, check out the drum sensor pictures. We even upgraded the stock tape ! We will also offer replacement tape for gamers whos tape has wore out.

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Web Site Is Up

check it out! Its a start

http://www.rockingrepair.com/

Bare with us while we make changes. We also made a cool logo, but we dont know where to put it quite yet. ha ha !