Learning with Arduino:
The Melody of Frequencies
by Sauda Musharrat, Selin Miskavi, Gabriela Szpilman
When we first started on this project, we wanted to incorporate Selin’s musical knowledge into our learning principle. Since we had LED’s to add in a “flashy” factor, we combined both light and sound through the common physics of frequencies. Our idea was to demonstrate how both light and sound waves mark its distinction from low to high.
Using two Arduinos, we constructed a piano with LED’s and buttons for the seven notes.
The image above shows the set up and the video is of Selin playing Mary Had a Little Lamb with the piano
Incorporating tangible learning
We then came up with instructional musical sheets to encourage learners to come up with their own melodies.
Then we came up with a keyboard as well that used Capacitive Touch as input rather than the buttons to make the learners feel like they are actually playing around with a piano.
