Nick Chelyapov's guest appearances

Nick Chelyapov

MacroFab Engineering Podcast

Tom Anderson

James Lewis

Mike Kahn

Scott Hansen

Leeroy Jenkins

Jason Cerundolo

Joe Grand

Benjamin Jordan

Chris Carter

Greg Paulsen

Seymour Duncan

Brian Kaczynski

Kyle Dumont

Valentina Toll Villagra

Phil Bresnahan

OwlTail

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 Curious Sound Objects  Visit our Public Slack Channel and join the conversation in between episodes!

<h4><a href="https://macrofab.com/blog/mep-ep176-some-impedance-or-whatever-nick-chelyapov-with-bitty" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Some Impedance or Whatever - Nick Chelyapov with Bitty</a><br/></h4><h4><a href="https://www.curioussoundobjects.com/about" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Nick Chelyapov</a></h4> <ul> <li>A freelance Interactive Art Director and Graphic Designer</li> <li>Born in Moscow, Russia and raised in Los Angeles, California</li> <li>Nick has worked on a <a href="http://nickolaspeter.dreamhosters.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">wide variety of art direction and graphic design projects</a></li> <li>Nick started Bitty, a pocket drum machine, 3 and a half years ago</li> <li>"I think the edge that I have to bring to a hardware product is graphic design"</li> </ul> <h4>What is the bitty?</h4> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1009010446/bitty-a-pocket-drum-machine/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Kickstarter project</a></li> <li>A pocket drum machine</li> <li>Specs on Bitty <ul> <li><b></b>Sine / square / saw / triangle waves (it's all there, noise too.)</li> <li>Sample playback - 16khz samples</li> <li>Polyphony - 4 voices is easy, depending on the complexity of the patch, 8-16 voices is possible</li> <li>Filters - Low Pass, High Pass, Band Pass, Notch</li> <li>Patterns / Arpeggiation</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h4>How did you get into hardware design from graphic design?</h4> <ul> <li>Product look and feel</li> <li>Process of iterations? What do you look for in the design?</li> </ul> <h4>Links and Callouts</h4> <ul> <li><a href="https://sensorium.github.io/Mozzi/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The mozzi library</a></li> <li><a href="https://fabacademy.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Fab Academy</a></li> <li><a href="https://teenage.engineering/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Teenage Engineering</a></li> <li>Gavin Lund</li> <li><a href="https://www.curioussoundobjects.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Curious Sound Objects</a></li> </ul> <h4><strong>Visit our Public <a href="http://macrofab.com/slack" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Slack Channel</a> and join the conversation in between episodes!</strong></h4>

MEP EP#176: Some Impedance or Whatever - Nick Chelyapov with Bitty