01-27-2010¶

Mechanical Projects¶

• Finalize what projects we want to do this semester
• Assign/Confirm a leader to each project
• Make sure everyone has an area to contribute to

Whamola¶

• Lead: Doug
• Meeting Time:
  • 11AM Sunday
• Goals:
  • Tensioner motor mount de-hack
  • Upper Hinge thickening
  • Electronic re-think
  • Plucker/silencer
  • Time permitting: fretting
• Team:
  • Jay
  • Andrew
  • Jon
  • Spoon

Drum Section¶

• Lead: Mike O
• Meeting Time:
  • 11AM Sunday
• Goals:
  • Bassbot touch-up
  • Interface large shop air tank
  • Add Toms or megaDrumbot
• Team:
  • Katherine
  • Harrison
  • Jon
  • Peter
  • Dan Shope
  • Spoon
  • Rohan

Brassbot¶

• Lead: Jon
• Meeting Time:
  • 2PM Sunday
• Goals:
  • find a better mouth/reed thingamabob
  • Make pretty noises
• Team:
  • Chris
  • Jerry
  • Patrick
  • Mike S

Vibratron¶

• Lead: Andrew
• Meeting Time:
  • 2PM Sunday
• Goals:
  • Acquire materials from Rich 2.0
  • Design case with built in activation mechanisms
  • Price spec the design
  • Construct if feasible
• Team
  • Mike O
  • Jon
  • Katherine
  • Chris
  • Jay

Flutophone¶

• Lead: Rohan
• Meeting:
  • 2PM Sunday
• Goals:
  • Tune it?
  • Airflow optimization
• Team:

One more idea MAX, if we REALLY want¶

Electronic / Programming¶

Markov / Composition¶

• Lead: Mike S
• Meeting Time:
  • 4:30PM Friday
• Goals:
  • Make more popular songs, that feature all the instruments
  • most algorithms use Markov, there are many ways to do this
  • just plain probability sounds bad, needs some knowledge of music theory

• Drums
• Vibra/xylo

• Team:
  • Stefan
  • Katherine
  • Ilya
  • Adam

Wiimote / Conducting¶

• Lead: Peter
• Goals:
• Team:

Interface / Midi parser¶

• Lead: Mike S
• Meeting Time:
  • 4:30PM Friday (Same as markov/algo)
• Goals:
  • Make a more robust design for the parser
  • Interface
    • serial capabilites
    • file choosing
    • Right now Java using C for serial, but nothing is final

• Team:
  • Katherine
  • Ilya
  • Adam
  • Chris

Arduino Network / Communication¶

• Lead: Nico
• Meeting Time:
  • Friday 3:30PM
• Goals:
• Team:
  • Andrew
  • Jon
  • Ilya
  • Adam
  • Chris
  • Rohan