Pandeiro

Client: Personal
Role: Physical Computing, Design
Category: Interactive
Year: 2025

Pandeiro is an interactive sound installation in a custom aluminum enclosure. A map of Brazil, cut into five puzzle-piece buttons, sits on its face; press a region and it plays music from that part of the country, drawn from a curated selection of Brazilian regional genres.

The installation on a dark table: an aluminum enclosure with the Brazil map cut into puzzle-piece buttons, a knob, status LEDs, and headphones plugged in

Pressing the regions.

Close-up of the Brazil map's puzzle-piece region buttons

Close-up of the instrument's buttons and controls

Build

The instrument's parts laid out before assembly

Hero video.