For about a week I was really sad. I could not get any midi data in no matter what. After rebuilding the circuit4-20 times I decied to be smart and start replacing parts. Turns out I had a bad IC chip. When I replaced the optocoupler data started flowing in like water down the Nile. But what [...]
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Researching MIDI-In using the Arduino has brought me to this post on the Arduino Forums and this page on Tom Igoe’s site and again and again.
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Over the weekend I attended the Alfred University Senior shows – a large showing of work from all graduating seniors and some elected underclassmen. There was one project that partictually caught my eye. Someone had taken an old piano and rigged it up to turn on a light for each key press. When I attended the showing, someone quite [...]
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For my final project for Development in Physical Computing, I aim to create an interactive user space, combining sound and responsive visuals.A MIDI enabled keyboard will trigger certain lights depending on how the user interacts with the device, creating an engaging proess.
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The above picture shows a good example of the contacts before soldering. Each of the ‘S’ type shapes was were the metal contact would be pressed down normally to compelete the ciricut and create the sound. The above pictures shows how the board looks after being soldered. A wire was soldered on each side [...]
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Using the buttons on a jacket, I am going to trigger the sounds from a keyboard to play when the buttons are pressed together. When the keyboard was fully functional, a metallic contact was pressed down to complete the circuit and play the sound. For this I am going to solder some wire to either [...]
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Throught many hours and misfortne I have come to the concluion that using a zipper for a switch will not work for this project. I have been using this zipper as a sensor guide. As the author mentions in the article, the small gap between zipper tongs makes for difficult circuitry. The toy-keyboard is too [...]
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The MIDI-trigger’d pants would not be completely free of the computer, and therefore would not a truly “wearable” device. The scope of the project has now been changed, still keeping the orginal scope of a music-enabled device that you wear. I have taken apart a toy-keyboard, and I will use that to produce sound. I [...]
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Each Drum Trigger will perform has follows: A piezo transducer, covered in a mouse-pad, connected to the Arduino. The Arduino, with the help of programming, outputs the data as MIDI, to be as MIDI via some music software.
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After watching the video of the “drum pants” kid in class I am slightly less motivated to make my own set of drumspants. But, if I do create them, might will be better. Why and how? Two reasons: mine will not all boring and black, and mine will send out a MIDI signal, resulting in [...]
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