[KDM] over at The Controller job forums let us understand about a awesome job he’s been working on: a MIDI recorder for an 8-year-old woman born with two digits per hand.
The recorder – a basic woodwind instrument normally made from plastic – is a essential of grade institution music classes the world over. It’s an outstanding introduction to the performing arts, however for those with two fingers per hand, the fingering is a bit difficult.
[KDM] contacted a producer of these instruments as well as they were kind sufficient to send over a half-dozen for his experimentations. He drilled out these recorders on a lathe as well as started work on a basic circuit to turn this recorder into a MIDI instrument. A basic photo micro as well as a few buttons were used, with a DIN 5 port on the horn of the instrument.
The develop works, however we’re believing with a little electronic wind sensor, this instrument might quickly ended up being a full-fledged MIDI wind controller that might be quickly as well as cheaply reproduced for other budding musicians with special needs.
Oh, one much more thing. We’d like to provide a huge shout out to the huge dork who started The Controller Project. A great deal of Hackaday visitors understand exactly how to work a microcontroller as well as a soldering iron, so exactly how about heading over to their forums and doing some great with your skills?