A friend of mine runs a not-for-profit children's museum (think: highly interactive exhibits for kids of all ages, no precious artifacts, designed to be fun and educational) and received a modest grant for a couple new exhibits. One of them will be space themed with "space shuttle cockpit" and "ground control" areas. The shuttle controls will produce "space sounds". So, I thought, why not have the controls hooked up to a synthesizer (virtual, probably, running on a raspberry pi).
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#synth
My thought was to design probably a drone/mono synth in #PureData and hook the various controls to various modules in the synth via MIDI encoders or something. So, some knob or buttons select the oscillator waveform, another controls frequency, some other knobs or sliders control FM, other controls affect vibrato, echo, delay, reverb, etc. The connection between #space and #synth is more aesthetic than educational, but kids could learn about both things.
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#Pd
Another idea I had was to connect the two areas with a radio, but put a time delay on it to simulate the time it takes a radio signal to travel through the vast reaches of space.
Anyways, I thought I'd post this here in case anyone wanted to chime in on ideas. The grant is modest, enough to cover costs of parts and construction, I'm not going to get paid or anything.
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