Biano – Brass-driven piano glove

For the homework 2 of PCOM, I designed a glove, or rings, to simulate like a piano, just like the belows:

In the very beginning, I designed all the staffs with multiple elements, like 555-chips, LCR circuits, buttons with force and so on. 

When I designed all the staffs and decided to make the prototype, I estimated the price of that prototype, find it almostly like 100 dollars in total….

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I’m not so rich, so I just went to the supermarket, buy a brass-paper, and do all staffs with scissor, Arduino and lead. The circuit map is just as below shows.

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Since the finges can be binary, instead of making sound by one finger, we can make multi-fingers as input source, which make it possible to generate 2^4 – 1= 15 kind of tones with four fingers. Just as the melody below: