Adaptive Instruments Project Touch Keyboard v0.9
A collaboration with Portland Community College, Daniel Rolnik and Portland Art and Learning Studios
In 2019, I worked with three other engineers to develop adaptive interfaces for people with significant disabilities - with the goal of enabling them to play original electronic music in harmony. We prototyped four novel digital interfaces with a hardware budget of $400, and an executable program as the GUI for tone control.I published the results of our work in a paper titled 'expanding access to music technology' @ NIME2020 elaborating on how modern rapid-development tools like box-and-wire programming can enable adaptive product design.
Adaptive Touch Keyboard
Adaptive Touch Keyboard
Features:
- Senses human touch via capacitance
- Unmarked keys automatically map to variety of scales (incldg non traditional)
- Polyphonic , up to 24 keys can be pressed simultaneously
- Wireless data via OSC over WIFI
- Wired data is MIDI over USB
- Sound is created via custom software executable with traditional "analogue style" GUI
- Keys are hand-made etched copper panels
- Microcontroller is a Teensy LC
- Audio latency <6 ms using ASIO
