Piano Skirt

Inspiration

I'm always at the lower lounge piano, which is unfortunately very far from where I live, so I wanted a way to have a piano I could bring around everywhere, literally!

What it does

Each pleat of the piano skirt represents a piano key using the colored tags! The program searches for each color using the Python version of OpenCV, then plays the note corresponding to whichever key is covered by the user's hand! To use the piano skirt, set up your webcam to view the skirt and cover the colored tag you want to play!

Challenges we ran into

At first I was going to have the computer think about which key / pleat the user was thinking, but that wasn't a great experience in trying to differentiate between things that look exactly the same. After a couple of ideation sessions, I came up with the colored tags! MY PROCESS PORTFOLIO: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BesLQwq62mtPQ4DCQxSj1NMRDhFxzozAegFiZGlKb2I/edit?usp=sharing

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I went from 0 experience in computer vision in general to a project using OpenCV! I didn't realize that computer vision could replace so many things I would traditionally think of doing with a physical sensor :0 It was my first time using PyCharm and I was proud of my anger management towards PyCharm as it kept telling me to fix my style.