What it is?

•  Programmable mechanical drum machine

•  uses the ioio to actuate several solenoids

•  3 animal characters

•  Cat

•  Monkey

•  giraffe

What will it reveal?

•  Inappropriate or aesthetically displeasing to use an electronic drum machine

•  Mechanical drum machine that will provide an appropriate type of accompaniment

The affordances

•  Portability

•  Touch screen

•  Ioio ’s bluetooth capability

hardware

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software

•  Pioio library

•  Processing

•  Sequencer code

•  Character animation using flash

How it works

challenges

•  Structure and export format for character animation

•  Number of images and file size

•  3d printing

•  Memory issues with the graphics and tablet

Why is it meaningful?

•  Programmable acoustic accompaniment is now a possibility for any sort of musical situation

•  portable and convenient to use in real life performance situations.