This week, we made progress on both the design and planning aspects of the project. We refined our proposal presentation, and presented on Monday. We also held two meeting with Jocelyn over the past two weeks to validate our direction and explore feasibility considerations.
On the sensing side, we are evaluating multiple approaches for detecting hand and finger placement to trigger chords or notes. Current options include capacitive sensing, capacitive touch sensors, CV tracking, or pressure sensors. The selection criteria we are prioritizing are range of expressiveness and ease for use for people who can’t play traditional acoustic instruments.
From a hardware perspective, we revised our implementation plan: instead of designing a custom PCB at this stage, we will use a general-purpose development board (STM Nucleo). This will accelerate prototyping, give us flexibility to iterate quickly on hardware configurations, and enable faster testing of sensing methods without committing to a fixed circuit design.
Our overarching goal remains to build a minimal, testable MVP that validates the sensing approach and instrument interaction before moving on to more advanced hardware iterations.