User:DDomingu1398/ENES-100/project 2

My Instructor's course page which points to this.

Project Preference
The project we decided to work on is Electronic Music Interface. The concept of the project is to make music that is being processed from a synthesizer to a beat bearing board.

Problem Statement
The project that we will be working on is Electronic Music Interface. What we have planned on doing is to figure out some connections on how we can make a synthesizer or a keyboard transfer notes that produce a melody through an Arduino and a MIDI to a beat bearing board.

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Week 1 Narrative
This week there was a lot of testing. The coding for the keyboard to play notes was tested and it was still working fine. Another code so that the keyboard can play drums was added and it worked just fine. The connection from an Arduino to the beatbearing board was also tested and we got the LED to turn on but it is not what was expected to happen because what was expected was the LED to turn on whenever it was placed in the beat bearing.

Next Steps: Start coming up with a connection that can connect the beatbearing board to the Synthesizer or the keyboard by using just one Arduino. Also come up with a coding that whenever the beatbearing board is placed a keyboard not will be played

Week 2 Narrative
A connection from the big beat bearing board was successfully achieved. This was accomplished by connecting every port from the 34-ribbon cable with wires and turning it into just one wire. Some of the washers were not completely working because there was glue over the wires that send a signal to the Arduino. The glue was removed and also some extra touches with all the copper wires was needed in order for the big beat bearing board to send it's signal.

Every washer is successfully working but there was a problem that was reported by a professor. The problem is that if every washer is connected by one wire then all of the washer send the same signal to the Arduino. What should actually be accomplished is getting each washer to send its own signal to the Arduino. With that said every washer could send a different note from the synthesizer.

Next Steps: come up with a connection to make every washer independent in the breadboard Start coming up with a coding to send to the Arduino so that it can send information to the synthesizer to play notes.

Week 3 Narrative
Mapping the Ribbon Cable connection to know where each signal from the Beat Bearing Board is essential to know so that the cables can be placed perfectly on the next to the Multiplexer.

current from the beat bearing board is shown in the following video VIDEO.

Next Steps: Connect the other half of the Beat Bearing Board by using the same concept of the first one and do some more cleaning to the Beat Bearing Board so that there is a better connection and so that the glue doesn't block the wires

Week 4 Narrative
The main task of this week was to fix or make a new beat bearing board. First thing was to understand the connection of the beat bearing board. The right 1/2 of the washer is connected to the ground wire and the left 1.2 of the washer is connected to the 32- Ribbon Cable which makes each washer unique because it can send a single signal to the Arduino.