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:

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First implementation in JavaScript at sig.gy/beatboxer:

Hardware

• Raspberry Pi 5
• Adafruit Feather RP2040 SCORPIO
• 8x Neopixel 144 strands
• Custom MacroPaw keyboard by @kodachi614

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

Software

• main.go
• generic program interface
• SCORPIO integration

Build photos

Contact

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

Published 2025.09.12.

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