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Sound Projects

CONTEXT: Smart Object, MFA Products of Design, SVA

Sound Project: Welcome

Project 1

Timeline: 1 week

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Voices of Winds

Material: tinfoils, matel wire, fan
Due to the fact that tinfoil is extremely thin and light-weight, any light movement will make it rustle. This feature made it a perfect material to capture the sound of wind. The form is inspired by plants as they are the natural instrument of wind.

Sound Project: Video

He Ye

Material: tinfoils, matel wire
Inspired by lotus leaves (He Ye). The tinfoil balls are used to simulate water droplets rolling on lotus leaves

Sound Project: Video
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Sound Project: Services

Final Project

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Brainstorming


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brainstorm
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When the quality of time increase, the speed and value of time increase as well, and the existence of time become hard to notice and vice versa.

Sound Project: Text

Tick-Tock

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The volume of tick-tock will change with time. The hour hand can act as a rotary knob to control the volume.

Clock
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Plan

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The first way to achieve that is to add a player behind the clock, and control the volume by a ESP8266 connected to wifi. The second way is to add a loudspeaker behind the clock and amplify the sound of the clock directly. The problem with this one is that the volume can only be changed through a potentiometer.

  1. Network ESP8266 with Firebase

  2. Build the physical clock.

  3. Get arduino to playback WAV file on buzzer using PCM library

  4. Build website for controlling important times

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Development


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1st Attempt


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Problem:
No DAC pin in ESP8266 - poor sound quality.

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2nd Attempt


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Problem:
Audio library is not compatibility with ESP32 - can't adjust volume.

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reference: 
https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/esp32-based-audio-player
https://quartzcomponents.com/blogs/electronics-projects/arduino-music-player-with-amplify-audio-using-lm386
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/SimpleAudioPlayer
https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp8266-nodemcu-date-time-ntp-client-server-arduino/

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Problem:
Poor sound quality when playing wav files.

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3rd Attempt

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Final Design


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