Air Combo

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Air Combo
Charles Cole
Mark Cerritelli
Matthew Fister
Mine Yalcinalp
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Project Concept Motivation

• Concept - Our project will allow users to play
  virtual musical instruments. The prototype uses
  embedded components to detect and communicate
  user gestures, via Bluetooth, to a base station
  that plays the appropriate sound.
• Motivation - Intuitive virtual instruments that
  allow multiple musicians to play together do not
  exist. Our prototype will allow players to have
  jam sessions on a gesture controlled device
  capable of simulating several instruments.

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Competitive Analysis

• Wii Drum Machine
• Use a Wii remote to play a virtual drum.

miJam Electronic drum that simulates different
drum noises.
Virtual Air Guitar Visually detect air guitar
playing to guide procedurally generated music
The Air Combo supports multiple instruments and
multiple players.
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Requirements
Thou Shall

• Portable Requirement
• Portable with wireless range of 32 feet
• Timing Requirement
• Latency between gesture and sound of 10 ms
• Functional Requirement
• Accepts various gestures as input
• Sends gesture message to base station
• Base station recognizes instrument
• Virtual instrument sound is produced
• Supports multiple instruments
• Supports multiple players

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Technical Specifications

• Hardware
• Bluetooth Module
• Telos Motes w/ Accelerometer
• Bluetooth-enabled laptop
• Software
• Sound driver and library
• PC bluetooth driver
• Protocol
• Bluetooth