Melosign
The Project
Our project is centered on the concept of making music accessible to all individuals, including those with hearing impairments. Music can often play a large role in many lives, able to serve as a source of emotional comfort for many. As the numbers of hearing impaired individuals rise significantly each year, it is important to enhance accessibility within their lives, including ways to experience the joy of music. By creating a device with vibrations and LED lights that sync with the beat/tempo of each song, this new way of music is easily accessible to all, especially to those with hearing impairments. Leveraging our coding skills, we designed a program that could analyze a specific audio file. The analyzed information is then sent to our raspberry pi, connected to a haptic controller and LED lights through GPIO pins, this allows an easily accessible and functioning process for all users.
Team Comments
I chose to make this project because...My sister and I are both musicians and passionate about music. We recently discovered from a research emphasizes the widespread nature of hearing issues have 63% increase since 2021. We want to enables users to experience music by engaging their senses beyond only auditory perception.
What I found difficult and how I worked it out1. Navigation of coding obstacles due to inexperience. Our projected plan is to take a coding class and perform research in our own time to gain a better grasp on the tools we need to tackle issues we expect to encounter in our design. 2.Ensuring project compatibility with various hardware.
Next time, I would...Our application has several limitations that should be considered. One drawback is the reliance on WAV files. To offer a more thorough, user-friendly, and inclusive platform. Also to create a wearable wristband to fit the device in.
