droneboard

Inspiration

We want to find new and interesting ways to interact with sound. Therefor we experiment with an old-fashioned whiteboard and some magnets as a simple and cheap, yet intuitive and expressive interface to control sound.

What it does

It detects the whiteboard with attached elements and uses their positions and rotations to control multiple sound layers with different parameters.

How we built it

We use a webcam and OpenCV to recognize the magnets on the whiteboard and then send the data via Open Sound Control to a SuperCollider server, which is responsible for generating audio output.

Challenges we ran into

8.30. Controls too unstable for the purpose + illness and lack of sleep strikes. Back to MIDI. We are out!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

What we learned

What's next for droneboard

Built With

• opencv
• python
• supercollider