If you’re like me (let’s hope this isn’t the case), you’ve started a lot of projects and never seen them through to completion. I’ve given up on more ideas than I care to mention–many more than I can remember. A lot of them were whimsical, but every once in a while one came along that really might have been good. Enter “iRoadie.� It was July, 2004, and while listening to an iPod I wondered how cool it would be to add your own drumline or guitar riff to a song while you were sitting there listening to it.
iRoadie was my idea for a series of iPod addons that get you “squealing lead solos along with your favorite metal song in no time,� or “pounding the drumline to your favorite anthem…�
Usually, my projects start with a rough layout or graphical design. I made a mockup of the iRoadie in Photoshop, complete with an Apple-styled preview.
I registered iRoadie.com (which I’ve since let slip away), but never put anything up there. I really intended on doing something with this project, but have no electronic skill or any type of casting knowledge that would help me build the units. So, I found a cheap children’s electric drumkit/keyboard combon on eBay, and devoured it with a soldering iron and screwdriver when it came in. My initial goal was to just get the pieces of the drumkit working and playing through the iPod headphone port, but I didn’t even make to that point before the dream fizzled. And that fizzling is what ends most of my ideas. Maybe you can make it work for you…
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