I-Corps: Wireless Invention Kits and Media Engagement Platform

I-Corps：无线发明套件和媒体参与平台

• 批准号: 1513103
• 负责人: Stephen Ruthmann
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1513103&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Wireless; Invention; Kits; Media

Beginners face barriers to music making; music notation, technique, and theory can seem like pre-requisites to meaningful musical experiences. Current electronic music technologies are too complex, constrained, or expensive. Educators and children need better tools that support learning through creative tinkering with technology and music. Current tools are too complicated for beginners, not open-ended enough to support diverse student interests, inadequately supported by creative pedagogy and support materials, and too expensive. This I-Corps team is developing a musical invention kit that enables users to transform everyday materials, like paper, cardboard and aluminum foil, into musical instruments. The kit connects users' tangible creations to a music-making app in a web browser or mobile device. The proposed design is both simple, lowering the barriers to entry for musical creation, and powerful, enabling kids, families and teachers to invent and play with music and sounds they love.The proposed technology consists of a kit of physical and electronic materials that, together with custom web and mobile applications, enable kids to design and build musical instruments, interfaces and controllers. At the core of the kit is a microcontroller break-out board with analog, capacitive and high-resistance switching inputs. The microcontroller communicates with our custom mobile and web music and media applications via low-power Bluetooth enabling children to work with our kits avoiding the clutter, complexity and limitations of wires. Also included are paper templates pre-printed with conductive ink traces and connectors. These templates can be cut, customized, extended, drawn-on with pencil lead and conductive ink, and folded into physical objects such as custom music controllers and interactive storyboards. Tutorials and an inspiring online community support users' creative work.

初学者面临着音乐创作的障碍；音乐符号、技术和理论似乎是获得有意义的音乐体验的先决条件。目前的电子音乐技术过于复杂、受限或昂贵。教育工作者和儿童需要更好的工具，通过创造性地修补技术和音乐来支持学习。目前的工具对于初学者来说太复杂了，不够开放，不足以支持不同的学生兴趣，缺乏创造性的教学和辅助材料的支持，而且太昂贵。I-Corps团队正在开发一种音乐发明工具包，使用户能够将纸、纸板和铝箔等日常材料转化为乐器。该套件将用户的有形创作连接到网络浏览器或移动设备上的音乐制作应用程序。拟议的设计既简单，降低了音乐创作的门槛，又强大，使孩子、家庭和教师能够发明和演奏他们喜欢的音乐和声音。拟议的技术由一套物理和电子材料组成，再加上定制的网络和移动应用程序，使孩子们能够设计和制造乐器、界面和控制器。套件的核心是具有模拟、电容和高阻开关输入的微控制器分路板。微控制器通过低功耗蓝牙与我们的定制移动和网络音乐和媒体应用程序进行通信，使儿童能够使用我们的套件，避免线缆的杂乱、复杂和限制。还包括预印有导电油墨痕迹和连接器的纸质模板。这些模板可以被剪切、定制、扩展、用铅笔和导电墨水绘制，并折叠成物理对象，如定制音乐控制器和交互式故事板。教程和鼓舞人心的在线社区支持用户的创造性工作。