(final week) video of the final thing in action video shown before hands-on example to explain some of the synthesis stuff The housing obviously isn't as polished as it could be, but it can stand up on its own and it can withstand some pretty rough handling without the speakers detaching in any capacity (I can't say the same for the power and ground of the light sensor), which were the main goals of the housing. A more elaborate or even "fixed" sort of housing were initially part of the plan, but since two of the sensors fell through it was ultimately capable of sustaining itself using direct wiring and a single battery. A heartbeat sensor was going to be included as well, and I had the code (mostly) up and running, but polishing it the night before all three of the wires connected to it snapped - it came pre-soldered. I didn't have an opportunity between the night before and the presentation to try soldering it back together. The other sensor was the ac...
Admittedly, I wasn't able to get much done this week because I was "between" availabilities at work - in other words, I had the shifts of two separate schedules and the days off of none, although I should have a lighter work schedule for the rest of the semester. That being said, I did at least figure out I'm going to be using Connor Nishijima's Synth or "Volume 2" library for sound synthesis due to the ease of producing wavetables, volume control, and polyphonic synthesis. I also bought a case for my Arduino.
Not a whole lot to show visually this week, although I followed up with Thomas directly to show off some of the new sounds, now that everything's been transposed and stored in memory. There are roughly 30 unique instrument presets and well over 60 unique composition segments, many of which are between 5-10 seconds long apiece. These compositions can be seen in the blog post for the final week. The code is 100% complete from the musical side of things - everything works at a minimum expected standard with a level of consistency, and likewise all of the "canned" aspects like the music and instruments are written out. It's mainly a matter of fully integrating the sensors at this point.
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