The Beat Bike, A Bizarre Bike-Mounted Drum Machine

Hardware hacker Michael Una explains his Beat Bike – an interactive bike-mounted drum machine. Sensors mounted on a bicycle frame are activated by spinning the bicycle’s front wheel. Once activated, they trigger a single drum sound- kick drum, snare, tom-tom, and “disco-bleep” from a kids’ toy drum machine. As the wheel spins, the sensors are… Read More The Beat Bike, A Bizarre Bike-Mounted Drum Machine