John’s Status Report for 10/8

This week, I helped the team discuss our plans for the physical system and review the concepts and action plans we laid out through our design presentation. I am planning to write Arduino sketch code to simulate data serially flowing into the shift registers that encode the data for which solenoids to trigger and at what speeds. This will first involve sending the solenoids binary, on-off data to test how to trigger the solenoid at different rates. Next we will add in PWM encoding into our on/off signal to try and trigger the solenoid at different speeds, thus trigger different volume levels from the piano note. We will simulate sending different encodings to different solenoids and test if we can create a simple pattern of key pressing. This will give us good data on just how to interact with the physical system. This will inform the audio processing on how to best encode the note data as well.