Conductive Sound Player

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  The Conductors (Our Crew)

Inspiration

Fischer Appelt, a German-based creative agency, created a conductive sound wall, using electrical paint. Essentially the wall became their stereo, and transformed into a worker-interactive and dynamic utility. Plus, how cool is it to play music from your wall by pressing on a painted-on button or icon? Through this we extend technological capabilities to the most unexpected and static objects from walls, to paper, or even fruit - all thanks to electrical paint. In addition, the electrical paint medium helps cut costs on excessive and entangling electric wiring.

What it does

Introduces new mediums for music playing! Revolutionize the way you listen to your favorite tunes.

How I built it

The Conductive Sound Player implements the Bare Conductive Touch Board. The board can access music playlists stored in an attached micro-SD card. We used the Arduino IDE to program C++ functions onto the board which enable the board to act as an MP3 player. We painted buttons and icons onto our board with electrical paint to act as the user interface. The sounds comes from a speaker connected onto the board.

Challenges I ran into

Implementing playlists from streaming services; accessing the SD card's contents to form multiple playlists; implementing different playing modes such as replay, shuffle, etc.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

The design of the Conductive Sound Player.

What I learned

Proper library implementation for Arduino projects.

What's next for Conductive Sound Board

Taking full advantage of the Bare Conductive Touch Board's capabilities by implementing animated-projections and proximity sensing. For example, allowing buttons or icons to light up when they are pressed; showing album art displays.

Built With

• arduino
• bare-conductive-touch-board
• c++
• electric-paint