Team LoopMaster: Jocelyn Park, Neil Katahira, Benjamin Moore, Conrad Rowling, Devon, Varsha Senthil, Tyler Kelley, ijasistin

Published August 2, 2020

LoopMaster

LoopMaster allows you to create musical melodies or riffs, regardless of skill level or knowledge using "instruments" created in-house.

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Things used in this project

Hardware components

BeagleBoard.org BeagleBone Black

BeagleBone Bela Black was used as our main source of audio processing

OpenMV Cam M7

Computer Vision Instrument

Arduino UNO

MATLAB GUI UART

Texas Instruments MSP-EXP430G2 MSP430 LaunchPad

Drumpad and FootPad

Software apps and online services

MATLAB

GUI

Pure Data

Used Pure Data to create a produce a sound based off of input

Texas Instruments Energia

Autodesk Fusion 360

Creation of 3D printed / Laser cut parts

Arduino IDE

For MATLAB GUI UART

Altium Designer

For custom PCB creation

Autodesk Eagle

PCB creation tool used for the Camera PCB

Ultimaker Cura

Used as our primary 3D printing slicer. Other slicers such as Simplify3D, Slic3r, etc. will work.

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Ender 3 Pro

3D Printer

Ultimaker 3

UC Davis EFL 3D Printer

Trotec Speedy 400

UC Davis EFL Laser Cutter/Engraver

Soldering iron (generic)

Putting together PCB's

Story

Loopmaster is a musical project created by a team of UC Davis EE-Emerge (EEC 105ABC) students.

Three instruments (Drumpad, Computer Vision, and Footpad) work with selections specified in a MATLAB GUI. In tandem, a BeagleBone Black and a Bela Cape are utilized to process user inputs and output different notes. The Drumpad works akin to a traditional MIDI pad, where each of the twelve buttons are mapped to notes that relate to a selection of instruments. The Computer Vision, on the other hand, maps different notes to select areas in a camera's view and outputs sound when a trigger is visible. The Footpad takes input from a user's feet and manipulates the sounds created by the Computer Vision and Drumpad.