1. UpBeat
Learn.
Play.
Shine.
MIT
2.009
Purple
Team
December
8,
2014
No product gives novice
drummers guidance
&
feedback
outside of lessons.
UpBeat provides
visual
cues
instant
feedback
a
fun
prac<ce
experience
right in students’ homes.
Market
150,000
drum
kits
sold
per
year
Acknowledgements
Purple
Team
Aar=
Anturkar
Erin
Bailie
Miles
Burr
Andrew
Busse
Margaret
Coad
Saya
Date
Chris
Davidson
Nick
Diamantoni
Brad
Eckert
Eddie
Farias
Sarah
Fay
Emma
Feshbach
Alex
Gilbert
Angela
Ha
Alice
Huang
Connor
Humbert
Isabella
Hurtado-­‐Braun
Jonathan
Lambert
Dennis
Levene
Bruna
Moscoi
Paige
Reiter
Stephen
Suen
Antonia
Warner
Xiaoyue
Xie
2009Purple@mit.edu
David
Wallace
Rich
Wiesman
Shreya
Dave
A=ssa
Banuazizi
Arthur
Petron
Chacha
Durazo
David
Schoon
Paula
Countouris
Thomas
Sebas=an
Ron
Rosenberg
Douglas
Sanchez
BreW
Campbell
Danny
Braunstein
Chevalley
Duhart
Brandon
Hopkins
Ramya
Swamy
MaW
Duplessie
Sang-­‐gook
Kim
Amy
Loomis
Chip
McCord
Peter
Nielsen
Nate
Phipps
Warren
Seering
Juhan
Sonin
Bill
Cormier
James
Dudley
Steve
Habernek
Tasker
Smith
Angie
Locknar
“Starter
Pack”:
$149
Two
drum
aWachments,
one
cymbal
aWachment,
one
hi-­‐hat
aWachment,
dock
“Add-­‐ons”
:
$20
Individual
drum,
cymbal,
or
hi-­‐hat
aWachment

2. Applica<on
User
Interface
User Profile
Sign-­‐up as a student or
drum teacher.
Music Library
Upload MIDI files of
sequences & songs.
PracEce Mode
Select specific song to
pracEce. Manually adjust
desired tempo. Follow light
sequences on actual drum
set to pracEce.
Feedback
Receive feedback on
accuracy and Eming of hits.
Compose Mode
Record your own sequence
when jamming with friends.
UpBeat creates a light
sequence and sheet music
from your recording and
stores it in your library.
LED
strip
&
cap
Wing
nut:
secures
LED
cap
and
middle
support
hi-­‐hat
rod
Top
foam
pad
Middle
support/
foam
pad:
piezo
sits
on
top
Flexible
wire:
accommodates
hi-­‐hat
movement
BoWom
support/pad:
supports
boWom
of
hi-­‐hat
and
holds
Ethernet
port
Top
cap
LED
strip
&
silicon
casing:
protects
&
diffuses
light
Top
and
boWom
pads:
supports
both
sides
of
cymbal
Piezo:
senses
vibra=on
from
drum
hit
Machined
aluminum:
holds
Ethernet
port
Threaded
insert:
screws
machined
aluminum
into
cymbal
rod
Hi-­‐hat
Cymbal
Drums
Le^
end
module:
holds
LED
tube,
clamping
mechanism,
and
Ethernet
port
LED
strip
&
LED
tube:
strip
inside
silicon
tube
that
diffuses
and
protects
the
light
Right
end
module
Drum
clip:
aWaches
to
drum
rim
Sliding
rod:
moves
to
mount
piezo
onto
drum
head
Dock
Sits
behind
drum
set.
Processes
signals
from
all
aWachments.
Signal
travels
from
dock
to
app.
Also
acts
as
power
supply.
See-­‐through
view
of
dock:
1
microcontroller,
24
MOSFET
transistors,
1
PCB,
8
Ethernet
port,
power
supply,
external
power
switch