#druve

i want to take long drives with you. I’d like you to sit next to me as i drive through diffrent cities we’ve never been but still we won’t stop. I’d like to be confortable with you just enough to know that that’s alright if i space out as i’m driving. i’d like it to be your hand on mine to snap me back to reality. i’d like to take long drives with you, music in the backgound you humming some tunes and i’ll be looking at you being yourself with me. i want you to be confortable as i drive and put my hand on your thigh. i don’t who you are yet, but if i’m like this with you, then you are the one.

There are three buttons for cuing different samples and the two knobs both control sound bank switching. The instrument was programmed in Arduino and the code is based of a Lady Ada tutorial I tweaked and messed with. I spent most of the two weeks battling to get the wave shield working (a chip that plugs into the top of the Arduino and stores sounds) so that I could have this instrument be self-sufficient - meaning, it doesn't have to plug into a computer to work.  Unfortunately, because of this, I didn't get to spend as much time as I wanted to on the design of it. So I will be making a second prototype (probably sometime in late June) that will be much more integrated and less clunky. It's going to involve more soundbanks, a steering wheel cover, pressure sensors, and a sound card (so that the instrument and music from the radio can be played simultaneously). Thank you! Feel free to ask any questions