BRAILLE PIANETTE
Music serves the purpose of expressing and modulating emotion. For visually impaired people, the piano serves as a musical instrument, which transmits their inner feelings to the womessage Our goal is to bring light and music to their dark world.
A key step to learning to play the piano is to know where all the notes are. For the visually impaired, this becomes more challenging, especially the piano, which is a tactical instrument. We hope that every note contains Braille so that when they feel the piano, they can tell exactly which note is where. Every piano will be customized according to the wishes of each pianist. Some people might want a forest theme. So the background of the piano will be flowers and plants. So that they can feel the forest. In addition, these parts can be taken off and replaced. We hope to cut out the piano with laser cutting. Then, we will continue to concentrate on its production. From there, we will work on the Arduino and connect it. Finally, we would program Processing. For Processing, we want to display the notes on the screen when notes are pressed. . It is similar to piano tiles, but the direction is opposite. In the whole process, we hope to make a mini version to test it.
Walking around NYUSH, Braille can be seen everywhere around the school. Walking into the elevator, I feel Braille on the buttons. When walking into a classroom, I see braille on the sign. Yet, when I feel the piano, I do not feel any braildo not knowme start thinking, how can a visually impaired person learn piano? Therefore, my idea originated from my interest in using Braille on piano. Braille and piano already exist, so I hope to create a tool that can help visually impaired people who have no knowledge of piano learn piano. In addition, people with visual impairment depend heavily on their hands to feel the world. So I hope that every piano can be customized so that when they play the piano, they can also feel a part of their imagination. Finally, it’s also compensation for my mid-term project. As for the mid-term project, the sound released is not the cleanest and most elegant. Generally speaking, I feel that this project will definitely change how visually impaired people learn piano.
All – Around The Corner
Joy is universal, and so is Christmas Season. Over decades of interaction between cultures, Christmas has gradually evolved into a universal holiday. All-Around The Corner is an interactive artwork, that captures a glimpse of joy where Christmas has arrived.
Our project aims to capture the joy and laughter of users. Walking around Shanghai, individuals become exposed to magnificent decorations. Streets filled with the Christmas Spirit. We want to condense something grand into a piece of interactive artwork that users can take part in. For the centerpiece, we wish to have a snow globe. For the platform, we are thinking about a wood-styled circular platform. Around the snow globe, there are gonna be Christmas trees and ornaments. The front has big letters that print “Merry Christmas”. For processing, we would like to have some sort of photo booth. As the user completes certain steps they will come to the photo booth to take a picture to document their completion of the task. Our first main focus would be the fabrication of the project, as there are a lot of areas that need to be 3D printed and laser cut. We would focus more on the processing part after the completion of fabrication. We would like to be completed or have all foundations completed before the user testing.
Christmas represents a year of joy and wonders. We wanted to create an interactive artwork that inspires the user to get into the Christmas spirit. Our inspiration mainly came from the Christmas Season. As a lot of students this year are not able to experience Christmas together with their friends, we wanted to take this opportunity to help them document that joy. The interactive portion of the project would be the task that leads up to the photo booth. The task they must complete is like Santa’s little elves. At the end of the day, we want this to be a Christmas experience for our users. We only go through things once in our life, but memory is what documents those little bits and pieces in our everyday life. Even after the completion of this project, it can just become a decorations user can have in their home. Possibly with a printed-out photograph that captured that very second of joy they experienced.