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DrumPants

DrumPants

Ever get stuck in traffic and find yourself drumming against your leg during your commute? Are you constantly tapping your foot and playing the air drums at the desk?

As a drummer, this is something that co-founder Tyler Freeman understands well — and he believes that you should be able to make real music that way. That’s why he and his cohorts created DrumPants, which will essentially turn your whole body into a music instrument.

DrumPants works by allowing you to wear programmable sensor strips under your clothes or wrapped around your appendages. The sensors or drumpads trigger sounds when you hit them. This allows you to turn your thigh into a cymbal and your forearm into a chime – or any other combination you can think of! DrumPants come with 100+ built-in sounds and work with headphones or external speakers.

Where Did DrumPants Come From?

The first DrumPants prototype was the result of a prank Tyler wanted to pull on his drummer friends! Over the next six years it evolved from a joke to a master project, to an educational tool used to teach kids engineering and programming. Then, with the formation of the DrumPants team, it evolved into what it is today: an industrially manufacturable wearable MIDI controller and app. 

And of course, with wearable technology being the current darling of the technology industry, now is as good a time as any for DrumPants to strike. DrumPants shows a different side to wearable technology though, demonstrating that it’s not all about smart watches and biofeedback for joggers.

“Most wearable tech companies out there today are focused on hard/semi-hard activity tracker accessories” explains co-founder Lei Yu. “We believe wearable tech can incorporate seamlessly into our lives without needing to call any attention to it.”

The Future of DrumPants

DrumPants are not limited to only music though. While it’s expected to appeal to musicians and people who enjoy tapping on their own legs, it can also be programmed to control a number of other devices. Lei further states, “We want techies, hackers and makers to get involved. We want to continue to develop DrumPants’ integration with tech. We can already control slideshows and games with our product. We can’t wait for hackers of all types to get their hands on our hardware and open API. We know they are going to come up with amazing and smart uses for it.”

Today is the last day of their Kickstarter!

Please visit their page if you want to help the project along and see people playing the drums while riding bikes!