Week 11 - Sketch 3

This week, I mainly worked on the research with Kay. We gathered a ton of resources and I went through each one thoroughly, looking and noting down projects, theories and so forth that were related to our project.

The concept of Air Guitar has been approached many different ways and actually exists in the world. It wasn't too hard for us to find products and projects that could be related to ours.

Jinsil sent me a research project of Csiro's Air Guitar project. They embed sensors into a t-shirt so that it can be played like a real guitar. Movements by the wearer's arms are mapped and beamed wirelessly to a computer which interprest them and turns them into musical notes.




Another project I researched was Takara Tomy's Air Guitar which uses an infrared string system to detect your strums and a variety of buttons both on the fret boards and above it to produce a wide variety of music notes.



There are a lot of good projects and products we can relate our project to, so this is great because we can refer to how these products are done and further push our project.

I also started working on our final presentation this week. I started to gather all information into a word document and layed them out on a slide and started designing what information should be on the slide and what to talk about in terms of our presentation. Kay and I have finished most of the research at this point.

We did meet up this week to go over the patch for the programming that Drew put together. We gave input on the outcome and what we can change and add. We also talked about the next few weeks and what we would be doing and sharing the workload. We will be meeting up next week again to finalize tasks for everyone. Next week we will be discussing when our documentation video should be done and what we want to do in terms of our essay.

Busy weeks ahead of us!