First year projects allowed me to study and apply engineering and programming at a more advanced level. One of the most relevant projects I worked on was designing and developing a piano for deaf people. While researching, my team and I discovered that vibrations of mechanical systems are the physical cause of music, and thought we could use this concept to create a musical experience for the hearing impaired using the Arduino microprocessors. On this note, we designed the piano in such a way that each tile was associated with a higher or lower vibration, following its musical note. We also incorporated LEDs of different colours, as visual cues.
Paper Clip / Transparent Tape
A4 Paper
Pencil
Speaker
Resistors (1M OHM)
Breadboard
LEDs
Passive Buzzer
Weetabix Box
Male-to-Male Jumper Wires
Arduino UNO
It is easy to use and can be used instead of a button.
For every tile built it is required just one wire connected to it.
It can detect a finger from a few inches away using more powerful resistors.
It is cheap.
There can be implemented a lot of cool ideas on the pattern that was done (there is an easter egg added)
Relatively short
Fairly easy to understand