Take the art of making music through beat boxing to its literal homophone translation and you get the concept behind BeetBox by Scott Garner of Scott Made This.
That means that this creation is actually a wooden box with beets sticking out of it and people can use it to make a beat when they touch the beets. While it may sound confusing, the concept is actually fairly simple in its ingenious way. "Powered by a Raspberry Pi with a capacitive touch sensor and an audio amplifier," as Scott explains, when people tap the vegetables, the box emits different drum beat sounds that can be made into a musical rhythm.
For a new way to play some beats, give the awesomely interesting BeetBox a try.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Vegetable-based Musical Instruments
- Opportunity to create innovative musical instruments using unconventional materials like vegetables.
Where This Applies
- Music Production
- Opportunity to develop and produce unique musical instruments that appeal to a niche market.
- Sustainable Agriculture
- Opportunity to explore the intersection of agriculture and music by creating instruments made from vegetables.
- Technology and Electronics
- Opportunity to leverage technology and electronics to create interactive and unconventional musical instruments.
