The LUT-Z is a mini drumcomputer built out of a raspberry-pi. The casing is my own design that was 3D printed. The drumcomputer relies on an external clock signal that it receives via MIDI. It also has a MIDI out so it can function inside a larger MIDI chain.
6 drumsounds are available to be programmed using 4 rows of 4 buttons. Each button represents a step in a 4 quartz size. You can see the beat running by the button for the respective beat lighting up momentarily. When a button is programmed to give a sound when the beat passes, it lights up dim.
The software is custom made and written in python to handle the IO of the 4x4 keyboard, beat selector and MIDI ports.
For this project I expanded my knowledge of python and how to use the GPIO ports on a raspberry pi. I worked with the MIDI protocol and data communication over a serial port. The case was designed in the 3D modeling program Tinkercad.
