Tangible User Interfaces - Fall 2011

Description

Our instrument is a simple sequencer in Pure Data, which is controlled by half of a twister game board, with simple pressure switches under each dot.

Materials

• twister board
• foil, cardboard, drinking straws (for pressure switches)
• arduino, puredata

Code

The arduino is loaded with a simple communication protocol (Simple Message System), which allows it to talk to Pure Data. The Pure Data instrument diagram is attached.

Music game based on an icebreaker game called Zip Zap Zop.  There are four cups (each with a photocell inside).  When the ball is passed from one cup to another, it creates a drum tone depending on from whom and to whom the ball is passed.

Materials

• 4 photocells
• 4 220 ohm resisters 

Arduino code

Group:

• Laura
• Kiera
• Hilfi
• John
• Ram

Materials:

• 1 Arduino Uno
• 5 Force Sensitive Resistors
• 1 Proximity Sensor

Description:

Ankita, David, John, Stephen and Martin created an instrument to play chords on wine glasses. In order to have the hands free to play a melody on any conventional instrument along with the chords, we designed an input method for the head so that subtle tilts account for different keys. A video can be watched here: http://vimeo.com/32111887