Group 17: Music In Motion

On a regular instrument such as the piano, the user must physically press each key to create a tune, our group wanted to make this a more interactive type of experience and that was the motivation behind our final year project. We used an IR sensor and the DE2 FPGA board for the hardware aspects of this project. On the software side we used a combination of C/C#, NIOS and SPOC builder programs. The FGPA would calculate the exact distance a users hand was from the sensor and send this data to the computer. Then C# was used to output an appropriate sound file. By overlapping the sound files and increasing the number of intervals, we were able to achieve a very smooth and realistic output, which was very similar to a real instrument. This report outlines all the work completed for this project and concludes with recommendations and next steps that can be implemented by future classes.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• McMaster University
• EE 4OI6
• 2008/2009
• Design Project
• Group 17
• Music in Motion

[wab709]

Can you play anything other than scales on this thing?

[HectorUch123]

Excellent proj.