And quite a fast one as well when you get a hold of a 3D accelerometer to play with!

Click here to see it in action!

Here it is! Our electronic musical instrument is steadily coming together. We are carrying out weekly meetings and gathering the parts to build it.

Here is how it should look once finished:

 

We have baptised it as TrampoLine and the user should play it by plucking the stretch sensors (shown in red, holding the bowl in the center) and controlling parameters such as frequency, amplitude and others by grabbing the handle and moving it. An accelerometer will be attached to the blow providing even more data to control other parameters. The whole structure will be based on multi-directional wheels.

The arduino mini should soon arrive to York and pretty soon the fun will begin.

Check back soon for more news on this.

Hello everyone.
This week started off quite nicely with some good university feedback on our Electronic Musical Instrument Project. Ed Dowie ordered a test stretch sensor and we were surprised when it snapped off while Vangelis tried to test its maximum size! Quite a shock to all of us, but in the end we found out it can be fixed thus limiting the damage (quite an expensive sensor: around £ 10.00!). As soon as I fix/find out a picture uploading problem I am having with the application that updates this site, I will post a 3D sketch of our instrument.
Working from home has its good and bad parts and the worst is that you lose contact with people which leads you to feel a little depressed. I am trying to go to the Uni more often then to avoid these things.
Sports now. Playing squash with my classmate Tony is proving to be a good way to bring the stress down and some energy spent. Now we just need to really know the rules of the game! :) Maybe this next week calls for an internet search on how exactly to play it.
My football team in Brazil has won the 2nd division championship and that is a good reason to celebrate tonight!
More soon - hopefully with some PD patches!