Specdrums: Music at Your Fingertips

A project in Boulder, CO by Specdrums
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App-connected rings that turn color into sound, making the world your sound machine. Tap anywhere to create musical beats and sounds.
Backers: 1921
Average Pledge Per Backer: $98

Funded: $188,944 of $15,000
Dates: Aug 16th -> Sep 15th (30 days)
Project By: Specdrums
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Latest News

How Startups Beat the Odds

August 16th - via: machinedesign.com
With limited capital and resources, even success can be a challenge for upstart companies. (Read More)

Sphero snaps up Specdrums, a crowdfunded music tech startup

June 25th - via: fastcompany.com
Sphero bought Specdrums, a startup that raised over $175,000 on Kickstarter to fund its music-enabled rings, for an undisclosed sum. (Read More)

How This Music App Caught Fire on Kickstarter

September 25th - via: msn.com
[VIDEO] - Steven Dourmashkin, co-founder of Specdrums, an app that translates color into sound, explains how a ring on your finger assigns different tones to different colors. (Read More)

BusinessDen CU grad student's Kickstarter drums up 12 times its target

September 21st - via: businessden.com
Steven Dourmashkin was looking for $15,000. The 24-year-old Cornell University engineering grad needed the money to make a batch of Specdrums, a set of app-connected rings that play a different sound each time the wearer drums their finger on a colored surface. So he launched a Kickstarter. (Read More)

Campaign about to end!

September 14th - via: kickstarter.com
Specdrums Rings have just hours left on Kickstarter. If you've been waiting to upgrade your pledge to get more Specdrums Rings, now's your chance! If you were going to tell your friends about Specdrums, do it soon! Let's finish this campaign with a... (Read More)

Production has begun!

September 8th - via: kickstarter.com
We're excited to announce that we've officially begun production with MacroFab! We'll be receiving ten rings later this month to confirm that our new manufacturing processes are set up perfectly. So far we're on track with our fulfillment schedule -... (Read More)

Key design improvements.

August 28th - via: kickstarter.com
All of your support and feedback has motivated our team to push the limits of our ring's capabilities. We're excited to announce that we've brought the total latency of Specdrums Rings down to 50 ms! This is on the level of other music making apps... (Read More)

New STEAM and accessibility initiatives.

August 24th - via: kickstarter.com
We've been very excited to receive so much interest from STEAM educators, special needs teachers, makerspace managers, and artists around the world! Here are some institutions we're beginning to have conversations with about how Specdrums can unlock... (Read More)

Half way to our first stretch goal!

August 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
We've just surpassed $50,000 in funding and are over half way to our first stretch goal: the Playing Pad Sticker, which will be included with every order if $100,000 is reached!  We're opening the design of the Playing Pad Sticker to all backers! If... (Read More)

We're the Featured Project in Technology!

August 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you so much for backing our campaign and sharing us all over social media. Your support and excitement has made us become Kickstarter's Featured Project in Technology. We are so close to reaching 200% within JUST THREE DAYS!  We've been... (Read More)

Now shipping internationally!

August 18th - via: kickstarter.com
Good morning Europe and good day to the rest of the world! We're excited to announce that we're now offering international shipping thanks to the support of our initial backers. Time to spread Specdrums Rings across the world!     (Read More)

We made it!

August 17th - via: kickstarter.com
We reached our goal in just 25 hours! Thank you everyone for being an early backer and helping our vision come to life so quickly. We're looking forward to growing the Specdrums community throughout the rest of the campaign and doing amazing things... (Read More)

These connected rings let you tap out sounds on any surface

August 17th - via: theverge.com
Do you find yourself mindlessly tapping away sometimes? How cool would it be if you could tap any physical object and produce different sounds? (Read More)

Over half way there!

August 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Wow! We're off to a great start. We're over half way to our funding goal in just five hours - things are looking great. Thank you so much to all of our early backers, and keep on sharing this project to help get the word out so that we can reach our... (Read More)

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