Make Sounds with the Snowboard and MAX/MSP

Amir Bolzman shared a very exciting work that transforms the Snowboard to a musical instrument. In this post, a tutorial to reproduce his work is provided.

Materials
To begin with you will need:

1 x Snowboard
1 x Matrix Sensor 1610
1 x micro USB cable

Step 1
Let's begin!

Connect the Snowboard to your PC. Be sure that you connect the Matrix Sensor 1610 to the Snowboard.
Download and install Cycling74's MAX software. You can download a trial version here.
Download and unzip Amir Bolzman's firmware and software here.


Step 2
Upload firmware to the Snowboard.

In the unzipped folder, go to SnowMax-master\SnowMax1610 to find and upload SnowMax1610.ino

Step 3
Launch application.

Double click 3dsynth.mxf to open in in MAX

Step 4
Configure and run it!

1. Choose a port for the Snowboard.
2. Click the check box.
3. Click the speaker icon to activate sound effects.

PS: You can apply this tutorial to the combination of SBFSR10 and single zone FSR sensors.