Drumair

Unity 3D development team:

Szymon "Zachi" Zachara | Radosław Halski

Tymoteusz Wojtyła | Krzysztof Michalczuk

Graphic design:

Maciej Świerczek

Sounds:

Krzysztof Michalczuk

Want to feel like a real rock star?

Now you can with DRUMair!

DRUMair is great fun for drum lovers who want to practice and improve their skills.
With just your computer, Leap Motion controller and the DRUMair application you can feel like you’re really on stage — in 3D! You can even use your own, real drum sticks.

Have fun with your friends, be creative and get the feeling of playing drums with DRUMair.
It’s the perfect idea for a party or practicing in your spare time.

Don’t have real drum sticks? Check out our tutorial to see how you can create your own set of drumsticks using just two sheets of paper and a piece of adhesive tape in less than 1 minute.

‘This weekend, I am participating in a Hack-a-thon.’ I felt so Shoreditch sexy as I said this to my colleagues last Friday afternoon.

48 hours later my life has changed. OFG, is the world ready for the Polish fireworks? An outrageously ambitious agency based in Gliwice, Poland set up the Hack-a-thon. I was the international owl that had volunteered to check in and see if I could lend a grey hair or two.

Let me press fast forward. The team started and completed several projects. One in particular made my heart beat, literally. The tutorial for the product (an app) instructs to get two sheets of paper, roll them, tie a band around one end on both and there you have it – paper drumsticks. They had built a product that I had named ‘DRUM air’. A drum pad that you can play on the thin-air in front of your laptop. Wow wee is this cool. It is based on the new Leap Motion product that I have now ordered and you should too.

Not only is the application brilliant, the future of motion control is confirmed. Much more importantly my life has changed. The modern day Hack-a-thon risks unsettling the entire start up industry. Angels, seed funds, business plans, prototypes, tax relief, culture books and meet ups are all potentially past their sell by date. All that matters is a time box, human energy, the idea and best use of available communication channels, platforms and devices.

I managed to get both my children in on the hack, my three year old daughter joined me on a couple of the calls and my seven year old son had designed his own app called ‘Greedy Ladder’ by Sunday night. I think he wants me to build it for him over the next few days. How do I tell him that I am really just an accountant and not a java ninja?. Further, even if we were to do it, over here we need 31 days of user research, 23 days of wire frame sketching, an away day, ten stand-ups and a month of A/B testing?

So, hats off to Blazej – he even has a rock star name -and the team at Jazzy. I hope the airspace store (remember where you heard that first) approve DRUM air soon.

This is exactly how it should be done, how things should be made.

- Ravi Ruparel (source: Ravi's Blog)