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=Introduction=
=Introduction=
==The Project==
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[[Image:mrh_box.JPG|center|thumb|200px|Mozart's Right Hand box|right]]
[[Image:mrh_box.JPG|center|thumb|200px|Mozart's Right Hand box|right]]Mozart's Right Hand is a musical instrument capable of playing two full octaves of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_scale Diatonic Scale.] The user wears a glove on his or her right hand and uses motions of the hand and fingers to create different notes. The pitch of the tone is controlled by the orientation of the user's hand. The LCD on the front of the box tells the user the pitch that corresponds to his or her current hand orientation. When the user touches together his thumb and index finger, the speaker plays the tone.
[[Image:mrh_playing.JPG|center|thumb|200px|Mozart's Right Hand in action|right]]
Mozart's Right Hand is a musical instrument capable of playing two full octaves of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_scale Diatonic Scale.] The user wears a glove on his or her right hand and uses motions of the hand and fingers to create different notes. The pitch of the tone is controlled by the orientation of the user's hand. The LCD on the front of the box tells the user the pitch that corresponds to his or her current hand orientation. When the user touches together his thumb and index finger, the speaker plays the tone.
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==The Team==
==The Team==

Revision as of 14:36, 17 March 2009

Introduction

The Project

Mozart's Right Hand box
Mozart's Right Hand in action

Mozart's Right Hand is a musical instrument capable of playing two full octaves of the Diatonic Scale. The user wears a glove on his or her right hand and uses motions of the hand and fingers to create different notes. The pitch of the tone is controlled by the orientation of the user's hand. The LCD on the front of the box tells the user the pitch that corresponds to his or her current hand orientation. When the user touches together his thumb and index finger, the speaker plays the tone.











The Team

Design Team
  • Colleen Fryer ( colleenfryer2008 at u dot northwestern dot edu ), Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student
  • Sean Wood ( seanwood2010 at u dot northwestern dot edu ), Mechanical Engineering Junior
  • Mat Kotowsky (kotowsky at northwestern dot edu), Civil Engineering Graduate Student

Theory of Operation

Orientation of the Hand Relative to Gravity

Effect of Centripetal Acceleration

Hardware

Glove

Accelermoeter

Play Enable

Desktop Box

Microcontroller

Function Generator

Amplifier and Speaker

LCD

Enclosure

Software

Reading the Accelerometer

Selecting a Note

Playing a Note

Further Reading