This past week I was able to get the multiceiver functionality to work completely and able to register “simultaneous” hits to the drum pads. I also worked on developing the framing of the drums to make it look nice but also secure. I also finished the overall design including the foam dampeners added to the underside of the impact plate which greatly improved overall reading of the pad and isolation of signals from the pad. I also soldered extra wires onto these pads to improve signal integrity as well as the connection between pad and the breadboard.
We are on track for being able to show a somewhat viable demo by interim demo and I am on track to develop more pads for the final. Might have to tweak the 3D printing iterations to make a larger rim to secure the pad.
My next goals will be to create the housing as well as the digital sound output from the central hub processor itself. I was held up debugging the wireless multiceiver communication protocol.
This communication protocol can only support up to a max of 6 simultaneous mailboxes and then we can later tackle networking and being able to play across different location if time permits. But the immediate goal is to be able to create 6 pads and have it create a fault-proof end-to-end system by demo.