Lab 13

1. Three final digital projects I find most intriguing are by Crystal Ann Palma Lagria, Margaret Sohn, and Jordana Bombi.
   1. Crystal created what she calls a “Laser beam Ukulele”. She removed the strings of the instrument and placed break beam sensors and distance censors. A certain note would play when a sensor is triggered.
   2. Margaret’s final project was a light show controlled by singing different pitches. She explains the science stating, “This project works by reading in frequencies from the electret microphone, and then being told to display a specific light show when certain frequencies are sung.” I feel this could be used in so many creative ways.
   3. I think Jordana’s project was my favorite, as I don’t see much technology like it. To my understanding it is not that difficult to build, though it seems so much more impressive. Basically she had to convert analog technology to MIDI technology.

2. One music-related project that intrigued me was where someone modified their Fender Strat guitar to have on-board digital effects. The user created this with only a few parts and some rerouting of the existing circuit. This project is super interesting to me and a lot simpler than I would expect. I might just try it myself since I have several old electric guitars I don’t use anymore.

A non music-related project that I found really interesting was a punch activated flamethrower. The creator wanted to emulate a “fire bender”, so he crafted his own flamethrowers and programmed it to detect a punch using Arduino Pro Mini and an accelerometer.

3. In digital electronics terms a switch or button is a digital input, an LED is a digital output, and a potentiometer is an analog input.

4. I completed NYU’s Intro to Computer Programming course which teaches the basics of Python. I really enjoyed it but have not participated in it much further.