Physcial Computing Blog

Week 4 - Reviews and Midterm Project

Me and my teammate have decided to make a Theremin-like instrument, the idea is to not have it only change pitch by detecting our hand’s motion but stick to a scale. Maybe we can have a switch to change the scale being applied or we can use the notes of a song in jumbled up order and come up with cool alternate melody lines. For now, we have managed to install our sensor (Time-of-Fligtht) and read the value and make it shift the pitch of a sine wave (or any other wave that is included in the Mozzi audio library). We have ordered an I2C multiplexer because we have decided to use two sensors controlling different elements; we haven’t decided what elements we want to control using the second sensor yet. Maybe effects, waveshape, volume.

Nima Niazi