INTRODUCTION “Keyboard mania gives users an opportunity to learn and gain a unique taste of playing an electronic piano without the presence of a music teacher.” Summary of our Project We designed an electronic musical instrument, called keyboard mania, able to play an octave of notes with additional features. Features include a menu for user […]
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Introduction Our final project is a programmable, self-playing xylophone with random melody generation and a pitch detection based interface. From early mechanical devices to todays musical greeting cards, history has seen numerous examples of automated music machines. This project represents a quick, modern take on that tradition with several additional features. We designed and
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Introduction Perusing through the impressive list of past projects, we decided to make our final project a combination of two technologies—wireless technology and the MP3 player. Specifically, we decided to create an MP3 player that broadcasted the songs to an FM dial. We call this the “MP3 Radio.” To accomplish this, we used an ATMEL
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Introduction This project implements a multi-function multimedia system that allows the user to sing with the music video and generate some fancy sound effects. In recent decades, multimedia becomes quite popular in our daily life. In fact, multimedia system has existed for a long time. People enjoy the time viewing photos, listening to music, and
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Introduction: Our final project is a musical water fountain loosely based on the fountain in front of the famed Bellagio hotel and casino. The basic idea of the project is to take an input from an iPod (or any sound source), sample the sound and break it down to different “sequencies” by Walsh Transform ,
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Introduction Why a working, wearable air guitar? Bottom line, it’s just that cool. Who doesn’t want a machine that will take their jamming and turn it into rock they can hear? With just a glove, a pick and a little practice you can rock the synthetic acoustic guitar like no one else in the world.
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Introduction: Motivation for Design The Mechanix is a motorized guitar tuner for a standard 6-string electric or acoustic fixed bridge guitar. Named in honor of Megadeth guitar legend Dave Mustaine, the Mechanix is a unique and innovative product which has numerous patent possibilities. Traditional handheld guitar tuners are passive; they tell the user whether the
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Introduction The Music Wand is a device that optically reads printed sheet music in real-time and synthesizes the notes which are read from the page. The device uses a linear image sensor mounted on the end of a handheld wand to scan printed sheet music and identify the note pitches. For each note detected, a
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Introduction Our project was to create two individual microcontrollers that can play banjo notes cooperatively to play two-part songs using nothing but sound to communicate and synchronize. Humans have had the ability to synchronize musical instruments together to achieve a single, coordinated multi-part song for thousands of years. In our project we attempted to simulate
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Introduction One Sentence Sound Bite Air Drums is an electronic drum kit played in the air that eliminates the need for tactile drum pads. Summary We created an electronic percussion set with three upright percussion sounds and a floor bass drum sound. The upright instruments require one/two modified drumsticks to play, while the floor drum
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