Wiki-Rap-App

Our inspirations

Wiki-rap: Websites can write you an amazing essay for your final on the fly. Why not rap?

Morse code: People can memorize a song much easier than a monotone pattern of dots and dashes. Research has shown that emotional encoding established more vivid memory, which allows for easier retrieval of information. Music triggers emotional encoding. We had the idea of integrating the musicality of pitch into Morse code to help learners distinguish different characters, as well as characters with similar patterns.

How it works

A collection of projects including Arduino and Processing, html, css, and python files.

The Python file scrapes a Wikipedia article by submitted topic and auto-generates a rap from article, which is printed to a text file. The text file is input into the Processing file, which is then converted to morse signals stored in the Arduino sketch. Everything is uploaded into the Arduino which outputs the morse code.

We believe this can better aid those learning morse code by providing a secondary cue to distinguish between characters and characters with similar morse patterns.

To run:

rapapp.py: usage: $ python rapapp.py "[topic of your choosing]"

Arduino morse code: usage: open Arduino IDE and Processing IDE, upload Arduino code, and press play from processing IDE.

Inspired by e g g.

Built With

Submitted to

SD Hacks 2017

Created by

I designed the Arduino component of this project and implemented pitches for Arduino.
This was my first time working with Arduino hardware, IDE, and working with GitHub repositories.

Also wrote All_Star_by_Smash_Mouth.ino

Karen Chiem
I worked on the processing java file to parse a text file and send bytes to an Arduino file using SerialPort. I also implemented the Arduino to accept the outputs from the processing file and call the corresponding functions based on the input.

Also wrote a test html file for Rap-App.

l2chu
I made the python script to parse Wikipedia based on a topic, find rhyming phrases, and generate a rap. I used new python libraries, which was fun to learn.

Also wrote egg.html

Michelle Caplin
I wrote the Arduino sketch dealing with the Morse code and audibly verified that our output was correct. This was my first time using an array of function pointers.

WillowFlusche

Updates

Karen Chiem started this project — Oct 22, 2017 12:07 PM EDT

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