MIDI Controller

I played a lot of music throughout my primary education. I learned piano in 3rd grade, and joined band in 6th. I loved the performing arts, and spent a lot of time geeking out over music theory, equipment, and production.

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I started building primitive wind instruments in high school but as soon as I had access to the digital fabrication machines of UT Austin, I wanted to use my love of music as a catalyst for learning the equipment there.

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I bought some cheap speaker modules onlsine, an amplifier chip, and set to work trying to design and build a one octave keyboard. I made a lot of mistakes in sizing, material choice, and execution, but I did build a mechanical model that could work. I threw around so many ideas for the electronics, that in hindsight seem foolish. At the time, I had a very basic understanding of electronics, both digital and analog, and didn't understand what it would take to sense an array of digital inputs and output an analog signal for audio equipment. 

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Maybe with my current understanding of the technologies and principles involved, I'll revisit this project.