This document provides instructions for assembling and using the Bleep Drum kit. It includes a list of materials needed for assembly, diagrams showing how to insert components onto the circuit board, and instructions for final assembly including attaching the bottom panel and installing knobs. It also provides an overview of the drum's functions including using the play, record and shift buttons to control sequences, and describes a noise mode and options for hacking and adding features to the drum.
This document provides instructions for assembling and using the Bleep Drum kit. It includes a list of materials needed for assembly, diagrams showing how to insert components onto the circuit board, and instructions for final assembly including attaching the bottom panel and installing knobs. It also provides an overview of the drum's functions including using the play, record and shift buttons to control sequences, and describes a noise mode and options for hacking and adding features to the drum.
This document provides instructions for assembling and using the Bleep Drum kit. It includes a list of materials needed for assembly, diagrams showing how to insert components onto the circuit board, and instructions for final assembly including attaching the bottom panel and installing knobs. It also provides an overview of the drum's functions including using the play, record and shift buttons to control sequences, and describes a noise mode and options for hacking and adding features to the drum.
This document provides instructions for assembling and using the Bleep Drum kit. It includes a list of materials needed for assembly, diagrams showing how to insert components onto the circuit board, and instructions for final assembly including attaching the bottom panel and installing knobs. It also provides an overview of the drum's functions including using the play, record and shift buttons to control sequences, and describes a noise mode and options for hacking and adding features to the drum.
Thank you for your purchase, fellow noise-maker! Here are the tools youll need to assemble the Bleep Drum: - Soldering iron Pen type, 35W max with a good tip. Like this. See Soldering 101 for more info. You will also need something to deal with soldering fumes and to clean the soldering iron. - Solder 20 gauge (.032) is good for most kits. Large solder should be avoided. Most compo- nents we use are RoHS. Lead-free solder isnt necessary but is recommended. - Cutters Diagonal or flush. - Small pliers Something like these. - Screwdrivers Large and mini fathead. All Bleep Labs kits can be completed by those who are new to soldering, but it is very important that you know how to solder safely before you start. This includes working in a well-ventilated area and wearing safety glasses. Children should never solder alone and should never handle anything that might contain lead. If you are new to soldering or need a refresher, check out these tutorials. R e s o n a t o r Capacitors LED 78l05 Resistors 12mm tactiles 6mm tactiles Potentiometers 1/8 jack Switch Atmega328 MCP4901 DIPs 9V holder 1 1/2 screw 1/4 screw 4-40 nut Feet Back Plate PCB Knobs
Page 1 Circuit board 1 Bottom panel 1 ATMEGA328 28 pins 328 1 MCP4901 8 pins 4901 1 78l05 3 pins 1 DIP socket 14 pins 2 DIP socket 8 pins 1 Resonator 16MHz 1 Potentiometer 10k or 20k 2 Tactile button 12mm 4 colors 4 Tactile button 6mm 4 Capacitors 10uf C1 1 220 or 100 uf C2 2 Resistors 1k R1 5 LED RGB 1 1/8 jack stereo 1 slide switch SPDT 1 Knob 2 Screw 4-40 1 1/2 4 Screw 4-40 1/4 4 Nuts 4-40 small 14 9v holder 1 feet 4 1 The frst components to go in are the three capacitors. Insert them into the three dashed circles from the bottom with the short legs in the holes marked with a - 2 Flatten the leads on the board... ... then clip off the excess. Cut the legs so they are just on the outside of the pads. Too short and the will fall out. Too long and they might touch another pad and cause a problem. 3 Solder the three capacitors in. If you arent yet comfortable with soldering, take a minute to looks at our soldering guides at Sparkfun or Bleep Labs. 4 The DIP sockets go in next. The chips go into these at the end. The two 14 pin DIPs go in the space marked 328. The 8 pin goes in 4901 5 Use a fat head screwdriver to fatten the pins inwards 5 Install the large colored buttons in their places and fatten their pins just as you did with the DIPs. 6 The small buttons go in just the same. Be careful not to have your fnger on the op- posite side of their holes when you push them through! Flatten the pins just like before. 7 Next is the RGB LED. It goes in with the fat side on the left as shown on the board. 8 Bend the resistors and insert them into the board in the fve places marked R1 Bend and clip the leads as before. 9 The black 78l05 and tan resonator go in as shown here. Bend and clip their leads. 10 The last components to go in on the top are the potentiometers. Before installing them, make sure that the ca- pacitors installed on the bottom are in correct- ly as they cannot be redone after the pots are in. You do not need to bend and clip the pots leads. 11 Soldering Before you begin, make sure that all of the components are in the correct places and that none of the leads are touching. One youre done, clip off the pots pins. If you get some unsightly brown dots and want to get rid of them, wait 15-30 minutes for them to dry. Then carefully scratch them off with a plastic disposable knife. 12 Once the bottom is fully soldered, there are just a few things left to do before you can make some boomclappoonnnchpewwwwwss. Insert the 1/8 jack and the slide switch from the bottom side. Fold the outside pins of the switch outward with your screwdriver. 13 Last is the battery holder. Use your pliers to pop and bend the pins out of the plastic so they look like this. 13 continued Install the battery holder into the pins that are on either side of the 8 pin DIP. 13 continued Before you solder the pins, take one of the small screwdrivers. Hold it against the battery holder as shown... 13 continued ... and tighten a nut on the other side. Do the same with the other small screw on the other side of the 9V holder. 13 continued Now solder the pins. Make sure the battery holder is as fush to the board as you can get it. This is best achieved by holding down the board on the table while soldering the pins. 14 Install the chips. Gently squeeze their pins to- wards each other so they ft into the sockets. Make sure the text is right side up and that the notch is on the left. Put a battery in and turn on the switch. Success! You now have a functioning beat-machine! If youre having problems with it: - Are the chips in the correct direction? - Is the battery dead? - Do all the solder point look like they should? Its not enough for there to just be some solder on them. Large blobs of solder might not be conducting properly. You should not be able to see the pad. If it doesnt come on and youve checked ev- erything a couple times, the best advice is to come back to it later. Seriously! I cannot count the number of times I have spent hours infuriat- ed by a project, only to look at it the next day and fnd the problem immediately. If you still have problem, feel free to contact us at [email protected] 15 Now for the bottom panel. Insert nuts into each of the holes on the plastic panel. 15 continued Put a long screw through a corner hole of the board. Put two nuts on it as shown. 15 continued Turn the screw through the nut in the plastic plane until it is fush with the nut. It should not poke through. 15 continued Use your pliers to tighten the two nuts. One to the bottom panel and one to the PCB. 15 continued Stick the clear bumpers on top of the nuts. 16 Screw the knobs onto the pots so that the tiny screw is against the fat side of the shaft. Youre done! Have fun making noise! Contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions or issues with your new drum buddy. User guide The Bleep Drum code v003 The left knob controls the pitch of the red pad, the snare. Right knob controls the blue, tom pad. Play Stop and start playback of selected sequence. Light will blink white on the beat. Record Start and stop additive recording. Any pad played will be added to the sequence. Light blinks red. Tap Tap tempo Shift + pad = Change to that color sequence. Light will change to that color. Shift + Tap + right knob = Change tempo with knob. Shift + Play = Reverses samples Play + Record = Erase current sequence. Blue and yellow sequences start with kick on the 1 and 3. NOISE MODE 30XX Hold shift while turning on the device. The light will turn green. Hitting shift again will turn it pink and blinky Green - Pots control the pitch just like normal Pink - Pots control noise. All other controls are the same. Hacking 1 - Ground 2 - Trigger output (high pulse every 1/8th) 3 - +5V 4 - Trigger yellow 5 - Trigger input (low pulse advances 1/8th) 6 - Trigger blue 7 - Trigger red 8 - Trigger green 9 - TX 10 - RX 11 - +9V (Straight from battery) 12 - Reset When a low pulse is sent to one of the trigger color buttons, that pad is activated. Nothing is currently programmed for the se- rial but MIDI shouldnt be too hard to add...