Weekly Update Meeting

Description

After the third lecture, we will begin having Weekly Update Meetings during the scheduled lecture time, instead of a full 110 minute lecture. During this time, you are expected to present a 10 minute, 3-slide update presentation on your progress that week to share with the instructors.

Lecture Slides

Slides

Requirements and Grading

There are no points directly associated with the Weekly Update Meeting, but attendance is mandatory and missed attendance will be considered for the teamwork score.

Submission and Deadlines

Nothing needs to be submitted on the course website. Your whole team just needs to be present at each of the weekly update meetings, and each team member must speak (at least for their own work).

Drum Tutor Lite

Featured Project

Team: Yuanheng Yan, Zhen Qin, Xun Yu

Vision: Rhythm games such as guitar hero are much easier than playing the actual drums. We want to make a drum tutor that makes playing drums as easy as guitar hero. The player is not required to read a sheet music.

Description: We will build a drum add-on that will tutor people how to play the drums. We will make a panel for visual queue of the drum and beats in a form similar to guitar hero game. The panel can be a N*10 (N varying with the drum kit) led bar array. Each horizontal bar will be a beat and each horizontal line above the bottom line will represent the upcoming beats.

There will be sensors on each drum that will fire when the drum heads is hit. The drums will be affixed with ring of light that provides the timing and accuracy of the player according to the sensors.

Of course with a flip of a switch, the drum could be a simple light up drum: when the player hits the drum, that particular drum will light up giving cool effects.

The system will be on a microprocessor. Or for more versatile uses, it could be connected to the computer. And a app will be written for the tutor.