Batebit Controller: Popularizing Digital Musical Instruments Development Process
Filipe Calegario, Jo\~ao Tragtenberg, Giordano Cabral, Geber, Ramalho

TL;DR
This paper introduces a physical kit and software designed to simplify digital musical instrument development for beginners, aiming to foster interest and community growth in digital musical interface creation.
Contribution
It presents a beginner-friendly toolkit that reduces technical barriers and costs, promoting wider participation in digital musical instrument development.
Findings
Kit enables quick experimentation with DMI development steps
Reduces technical complexity for beginners
Uses open-source components to lower costs
Abstract
In this paper, we present an ongoing research project related to popularizing the mindset of building new digital musical instruments. We developed a physical kit and software intended to provide beginner users with the first grasp on the development process of a digital musical instrument. We expect that, by using the kit and the software, the users could experiment in a short period the various steps in developing a DMI such as physical structure, electronics, programming, mapping, and sound design. Our approach to popularizing the DMI development process is twofold: reducing the cognitive load for beginners by encapsulating technical details and lowering the costs of the kit by using simple components and open-source software. In the end, we expect that by increasing the interest of beginners in the building process of digital musical instruments, we could make the community of new…
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TopicsArduino and IoT Applications · Tactile and Sensory Interactions · Engineering and Technology Innovations
