(under construction)
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I created an art installation controlled by force-sensitive sensors to change the music and animation playing. Pressing the sensors also generates a random value of red, green, or blue - respectively - in p5 and sends it back to the board to light up the RGB light. I used Arduino to control the sensors and the LED. I used c2.js to make the animation, p5.js for the client-side code, and p5 Serial Control to connect my program to the Arduino board. The music is Save Point from Kirby Super Star, composed by Jun Ishikawa & Dan Miyakawa.
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Originally, I wanted to make a digital instrument. When the user pressed on the sensors, it was going to play a note, and the note would be low or high depending on the amount of pressure. I had to scale it back for time (and because it required more analog pins than available on the Arduino Uno), and I landed on this idea instead. I like how it turned out, but I think I'd still like to do my original idea sometime.
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In the future, I hope to expand on this project by using MIDI instead of hardcoded values. I'd make the animations (psuedo)random, and add an option to the website to use a keyboard in case the user doesn't have an Arduino kit. I would also like to make it connect to MIDI controllers, if possible. I'd also cover the force pressure sensors with some kind of hardware to make it look better!