PianoMan

Accomplishments for Week 8: Worked on completing the Design Review Report due Monday with my Team. Also worked on Ethics Assignment before the deadline was pushed. Fixed bugs in the C++ teaching module program that made unnecessary LEDs flicker. Changed algorithm to keep track of each LED’s current state (which is not available through the Control Library).  Improved and run several the piano keys mapping and segments falling test. Added functionality to provide Speed Mode wanted for particular song’s execution…

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Accomplishments for Week 7: Successfully Daisy chained FOUR 32×16 LED Matrices together to work as a large 128×16 Matrix to sit on almost all of the keys of the 61-keys piano keyboard: Mapped Octaves 2 (Start of Keyboard) to 6 (End of Keyboard) to the columns of Matrix: All Piano Keys Mapped to 128×32 LED Matrix Ran tests to visualise multiple random keys played at varying time with varying widths: Random Set of Keys played in unison like a song…

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During Week 6 of the Capstone design project, the following work was done: Whole team worked on creating the project’s Design Review Presentation for next week by discussing specific details of our respective parts of the project. I added content about the hardware side’s implementation and testing and edited the slides to aid in easy visual absorption of the information. Ordered 3 additional LED Matrices from Adafruit Industries of the same kind that I used to test our implementation in…

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Accomplishments for Week 5: Setup and Configured the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ with Raspbian OS in SD card. Registered it to CMU-Device WIFI and setup remote SSH and VNC viewing capabilities. Received Hardware Parts from Adafruit Industries. Setup 5V 10A power supply for the LED Matrix. Wired the LED Matrix to the Raspberry Pi for testing using the following suggested table. GPIO PINS on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ HUB 75 INPUT PINS on LED Matrix      …

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