Beatboxer

A human-sized drum machine built with a Raspberry Pi, a Feather SCORPIO, NeoPixels, and Go

This project is maintained by siggy

Beatboxer: A human-sized drum machine built with a Raspberry Pi, a Feather SCORPIO, NeoPixels, and Go

Prior Art

Inspired by Nine Inch Nails’ Echoplex drum machine:


First implementation in JavaScript at sig.gy/beatboxer:

Hardware

Beatboxer 2025 Fritzing

Click here to download the source Fritzing sketch file (requires the Adafruit Fritzing Library and a custom MacroPaw part).

Software

Build photos

System on a boardPre-board installationSCORPIO installMacroPaw installComplete on playaAfter the dust storm

Contact

File an issue against this repo, or find me at sig.gy

This doc updated for 2025. For the original 2017-2018 writeup, see Beatboxer 2017-2018.