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check it out here.
http://kendallwyatt.com/ecen405.html
I presented it to judges yesterday and everyone seemed to like it a lot. The feedback & low latency of the music is very nice, its very responsive to blocking the lasers. And we programmed in velocity in the MIDI message so it outputs differently if you "pluck" the laser fast or slow (based on volume and length the note is played). We used Reason to have a software synthesizer to play the MIDI messages from the 12 inputs. The system works via photo resistors in a voltage divider going into an ADC microchip which goes into an FPGA (Xilinx Virtex 2 Pro) which outputs through an actual MIDI jack and MIDI cord to a MIDI to USB converter and into the laptop. We can change the instrument being played to anything, our favorite patch was Charlie's Angels.
I made sure we used lasers in my project
-Kendall
http://kendallwyatt.com/ecen405.html
I presented it to judges yesterday and everyone seemed to like it a lot. The feedback & low latency of the music is very nice, its very responsive to blocking the lasers. And we programmed in velocity in the MIDI message so it outputs differently if you "pluck" the laser fast or slow (based on volume and length the note is played). We used Reason to have a software synthesizer to play the MIDI messages from the 12 inputs. The system works via photo resistors in a voltage divider going into an ADC microchip which goes into an FPGA (Xilinx Virtex 2 Pro) which outputs through an actual MIDI jack and MIDI cord to a MIDI to USB converter and into the laptop. We can change the instrument being played to anything, our favorite patch was Charlie's Angels.
I made sure we used lasers in my project
-Kendall
