Mid-term idea:
Sam and I are thinking of making a kid-friendly Halloween project that includes sounds as the main aspect. I remembered this music video I found online last year with 3 ghosts singing and Sam and I both really liked the idea of having multiple ghosts interacting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXF3VYYa5TI
We didn’t want to make a musical instrument or anything that only plays single notes, so we had the idea of making some form of a music box. We took inspiration from this book cake and we want to have a carved out book or woodbox as the base/platform as the base to place our interactive elements on top and the wires/microcontrollers/speakers inside the box to hide them.
For the main interaction, we want the users to activate each of the 3 ghosts and the ghosts would each have a different melody/beat being played when they are activated.
We also thought it would be interesting to bring in other outputs such as LEDs and motors/fans. We want to build the exterior of the ghosts with light soft fabric so that when there is air blowing on it it would slightly flow/move. The interior would be hollow with a wireframe to support the fabric and allow the wind to blow from the bottom of the ghosts. We also plan to attach 2 LEDs as eyes for the ghosts which would light up when each ghost is activated.
We want to make the interaction component of the project to be more interesting so we decided give each of the ghost a separate sensor with a forth sensor that serves as the main sensor that activates all 3 ghosts at the same time. The ghosts would be “singing” when activated so we thought it would be fun to use small microphone stands as props to put in front of each ghost where there would be pressure sensors.
Components
3 Tiny Ghosts
Stage/Base