Macrofab Engineering Podcast

Some Impedance or Whatever - Nick Chelyapov with BittyNick Chelyapov A freelance Interactive Art Director and Graphic Designer Born in Moscow, Russia and raised in Los Angeles, California Nick has worked on a wide variety of art direction and graphic design projects Nick started Bitty, a pocket drum machine, 3 and a half years ago "I think the edge that I have to bring to a hardware product is graphic design" What is the bitty? Kickstarter project A pocket drum machine Specs on Bitty Sine / square / saw / triangle waves (it's all there, noise too.) Sample playback - 16khz samples Polyphony - 4 voices is easy, depending on the complexity of the patch, 8-16 voices is possible Filters - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass, Notch Patterns / Arpeggiation How did you get into hardware design from graphic design? Product look and feel Process of iterations? What do you look for in the design? Links and Callouts The mozzi library Fab Academy Teenage Engineering Gavin Lund