Trumpet Hero

Inspiration

Wanting to play Guitar Hero while being College Students. Also Leap Motion looked cool. Also Kade's is a trumpet nerd.

Achieves your childhood dream of becoming a part of a band.

Used Leap Motion's Python Libraries with a Leap Motion sensor so that the game could detect finger presses.
Utilized Pygame Library to create a rhythm game that used Leap's Motion Sensors as input.
Integrated the Python MIDI (https://github.com/vishnubob/python-midi) library to convert songs to map notes as finger combinations for the game.

Music Theory. There's too much of it. It's not just theory, there's math in it. Kade's smart though in this though.
Figuring out what is up and what is down with Leap Motion.
Trying to extract a certain instrumental track out of MIDI files, and then getting notes from the tracks, and then creating a new track from those notes, and then creating a new MIDI file from that track. Also, removing that track from the MIDI file, so it could be used as background music.
Trying to bring together all the code: connecting the Leap Motion python code and the MIDI track parser with the main Pygame code.
Finding songs that had a good trumpet part.
Did I mention Music Theory?

Figuring out how to use a deprecated library of Leap Motion with a deprecated version of Python.
Actually creating MIDI files that work.
Making Air Trumpeting a thing.
Somewhat understanding Music Theory.
Going through 15 Awake Chocolate Bars collectively (and one team member being responsible for half of that).

Integrating MIDI converter in the game, so players can pick their own favorite tracks by uploading files from their computer directly rather than converting them with a separate script.

I worked on getting the track that we wanted out of a MIDI file, converting them in to finger combinations, and eating Awake chocolates. MIDI files are really cool in that you can isolate specific instruments and modify them in a million different ways, but it's also incredibly frustrating to get them the work the way you'd want them to; which is why getting the tracks and notes read from the files right was hard

Aryan Wadhwani
I worked on the back end with the MIDI file data parsing. I helped with isolating the instruments and determining the pitch of the notes.

Kade Boltjes
I worked on creating a python script to convert data from the Leap Motion sensor to detect individual finger pressed. With Alex, I designed and built the rhythm game using PyGame which could play music tracks created by the MIDI converter.

Thomas Barnett
I primarily worked on the mechanics and the GUI of the gameplay itself. This was the first time I used Python in many years, but I got the hang of it by the end.

Alex Huang

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