Instructions

Game and Knowledge in Electronics-Lab
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A conductor’s baton is only for
classical music. But now it’s
time for rock! Build your own
electronic drum set. In addition
to the loudspeaker, this time you
also need two buttons, a location
sensor and a light sensor.
You need to connect the location
sensor loosely using two long
cables so that you can move
it around. The other sensors
must be mounted firmly on the
plate. The light sensor is used by
touching it and shading the light.
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The conductor
When the conductor lifts his baton, all
musicians in an orchestra are highly
concentrated and then the baton
conducts the music. Now you can
practice exactly this. Your baton is
the location sensor and the music is
played out of the loudspeaker. The
programme is started again with two
wire connections, A-B and C-D.
It is best to build everything on a stable
plate you can then swing back and forth
like a conductor’s baton. Every time you tilt
the location sensor to the right, the contact
is closed and the next sound is played.
If you swing the sensor very quickly, the
music plays at maximum speed, but does
not sound very good. There should longer
and shorter tones. A true conductor has a
sense for this and convinces his audience.
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Electronic
drum set