Project

# Title Team Members TA Documents Sponsor
11 Automated Chinese Traditional Chimes with Song
 Luting Lei
Siyi Li
Tianle Wu
Xiaoxiao Pan
 design_document1.pdf
design_document2.pdf
proposal2.docx
 Yu Lin
# Team Members
- Tianle Wu (tianle3)
- Luting Lei (lutingl2)
- Siyi Li (siyili4)
- Xiaoxiao Pan (xp8)

# Problem

Few people play Chinese traditional Chimes, and they're often stuck in traditional music, which seems to be a barrier of traditional instruments. Additionally, there are few research on blending modern music with Chinese traditional genres. By addressing these issues, the project is an invention contributes to Chinese traditional music instrument in a modern context and innovatively researches the possible music style transformation between model music and traditional Chinese music.

# Solution Overview

The project aims to revive the melody played by smartphones in the Chinese traditional Chimes. We will first recognize a melody from a smartphone and generate the adapted melody for chimes, then transform the melody to signals, and then control a mechanical design to ring the chimes with the motor.

# Solution Components
- Melody Recognition and Generating Model: The model will be trained to automatically recognize the main melody from a period of sound played by the smartphone and adapt to Chinese traditional style for chimes.
- Electrical Control System: The system will transform the generated melody to location and time signals （for different pitches and rhythms) and build a microcontroller.
- Mechanical System: A hammer structure hanging horizontally at the top of a series of chimes controlled by a motor. It will ring the corresponding chimes controlled by the electrical control system.

# Criteria for Success
- Training a machine learning model that could correctly recognize the melody from a smartphone (with noise). Apply the algorithm to adapt the recognized melody for chimes play.
- Generating correct position and time signals and successfully controlling motor operation.
- Easy and flexible structure for hammer ringing every chime.
- Make the adapted music pleasant and make the whole structure as simple as possible.

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Design Methodology

We will build a device with three components: a light source, a screen, and a stand to hold the object. After placing an object on the stand and starting the scan, the device will record three projections by rotating either the camera and screen or object. Using the three projections in tandem with an algorithm developed with a graduate student, our device will create a 3D reconstruction of the object.

Hardware

• Motors to rotate camera and screen or object

• Grid of photo sensors built into screen

• Light source

• Power source for each of these components

• Control system for timing between movement, light on, and sensor readings