I-Corps: Wireless Invention Kits and Media Engagement Platform

初学者面临着音乐制作的障碍;音乐符号，技术和理论似乎是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。目前的工具对初学者来说太复杂，不够开放，无法支持不同的学生兴趣，缺乏创造性教学法和辅助材料的支持，而且太贵。这个I-Corps团队正在开发一个音乐发明工具包，使用户能够将日常材料，如纸，纸板和铝箔，转化为乐器。该套件将用户的有形创作连接到Web浏览器或移动终端中的音乐制作应用程序。这项设计既简单，降低了音乐创作的门槛，又功能强大，使孩子、家庭和老师能够发明和演奏他们喜欢的音乐和声音。这项技术包括一套物理和电子材料，加上定制的网络和移动的应用程序，使孩子们能够设计和制作乐器、界面和控制器。该套件的核心是一个具有模拟、电容和高电阻开关输入的微控制器分线板。微控制器通过低功耗蓝牙与我们的定制移动的和网络音乐及媒体应用程序进行通信，使儿童能够使用我们的套件，避免电线的杂乱、复杂和限制。还包括纸模板预印导电油墨痕迹和连接器。这些模板可以剪切、定制、扩展、用铅笔芯和导电墨水绘制，并折叠成物理对象，如自定义音乐控制器和交互式故事板。Tuesday和鼓舞人心的在线社区支持用户的创造性工作。

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.