Piano Warlock

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  Wolfgang Mozart - Your personal Piano Assistant

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  hardware

Inspiration

The idea for our project is inspired by the mobile game Magic Piano Tiles – just with the twist that you actually use the piano. Also, we wanted to implement the classical composer Mozart since we are huge fans :)

What it does

Our project provides an innovative way to learn piano. The LEDs will light up to show you what notes to play and when to play them. You give a command/prompt to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – our voice activated assistant – and it accts accordingly to your request, playing or pausing a song, picking the song, rewinding or fast forwarding, increasing or decreasing speed or restarting a song.

How we built it

We programed our Arduino UNO R3 to activate the LED lights (for the particular keys) when a key on the piano has to be pressed. The box for the Arduino is made from cardboard that we cut and stamped at the Innovation Lab at Hale Library. Use open source AI to create Mozart and gave him the voice of our German exchange student.

Challenges we ran into

Insufficient materials (no shift register, too little cardboard) -> had to adapt our idea to be modular, incapable of using songs that use more than one octave :( -> had to make our own MIDI database

Accomplishments that we're proud of

One hour of sleep total with unbelievable amounts of Baja Blast, Coffee and Energy Drinks, adaptability to challenges that arose

What we learned

Sleep is optional, one baja blast contains 88% of ur daily sugar.

What's next for Piano Warlock

Expand our database of songs and enable it to play on multiple octaves. We aim to make it automatically incorporate newly released songs. With those improvements, we would enhance our overall user experience and optimize piano learning even further.

Built With

• arduino
• flask
• innovation-lab
• laser-cutter
• python