Progress

This week we developed our interaction, of somehow drawing to create sound, further. We also decided that we will use 8-bit sounds (the kind of music you hear in old video games) as there is something simple yet quite pleasing about them.

This is our 3rd prototype, basically it has 5 round grooves along the top surface which are big enough to fit 5 of our LDRs (the wires come through the small hole in the middle of each groove). The idea is that a sheet of acetate is placed over the top of the surface and the user can draw whatever they feel like. This drawing will then somehow (we've not quite decided how yet) be pulled over the line of LDRs, playing the drawing in sequence.
We were pointed towards barrel organs as inspiration, they are similar in the way that the music is pre-decided and just pulled past the music playing bit.

Donald and Richard :)