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==Selecting a Note==
==Selecting a Note==
==Playing a Note==
==Playing a Note==
=Further Reading=

Revision as of 09:58, 17 March 2009

Introduction

The Project

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. When the user touches his or her thumb to index finger, the instrument plays a tone using its speaker corresponding to the orientation of the user's hand.

PICTURE HERE with link to youtube video

The 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

PICTURE OF THE TEAM GOES HERE

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