Algo.Rhythm

Student: Huaishu Peng

Algo.Rhythm is a tangible computational drum kit with programmable behaviors. By arranging and physically connecting a number of drum-bots, each of them records beat patterns from outside world or its precursor, replays the patterns in selectable ways, and passes the rhythm to its neighbors along the drum-bot’s surface in 3D space. The construction of drum-bots and the delivery of the beat patterns provide users a unique opportunity to learn a set of computational concepts like sequential execution, iteration, or forking through composing music.

http://code.arc.cmu.edu/projects/algo-rhythm-drum-robots-with-programmable-behavior/

Huaishu Peng. 2012. Algo.Rhythm: computational thinking through tangible music device. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’12), Stephen N. Spencer (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 401-402. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2148131.2148234