Rock Out With This FPGA MIDI Drumkit Project

LUMS SSE Electrical Engineering undergrads Haris Usmani and Bilal Mahmood have created a fully functional, low-latency MIDI drumkit project using an FPGA board for their Digital Systems Design class.  The kit is comprised of four piezo sensors with ADCs, one Digilent Nexys-2 Xilinx Spartan-3E FPGA, Serial to MIDI software and a laptop with the EZDrummer VST-Plugin running in Ableton Live.

If you’re left wanting more after watching the video, make sure to head over to TechJango and see what they’ve got cooking.  The FPGA MIDI drumkit project is completely open-source, and you can go check out the project page here.

(via TechJango)