{"id":332,"date":"2014-05-25T21:40:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T21:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2014-09-13T16:27:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T16:27:58","slug":"building-a-music-based-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Building a sound based toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a bit busy lately at work so I did not work a lot on my different projects. But after a discussion with my sister who was complaining about \u00a0the fact that there was no &#8220;good&#8221; music based toy for her 18 months old child, I was wondering what I could do about it.<\/p>\n<p>Wandering around, I discovered a few things like a &#8220;wall Piano&#8221; based on a\u00a0<span style=\"color: #003366;\">PICAXE-08M2 microcontroller and an u<\/span>ltrasonic Range Finder (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electroniquepratique.com\/detail.php?idMg=447&amp;id=1267\">here<\/a>). But nothing really nice and fun for a very young child. I finally discovered a very very nice project : <a href=\"http:\/\/monome.org\/\">monome<\/a>. Ok&#8230; a bit complex for a child and surely to expensive ! Looking for some monome clone, I finally stumbled upon\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Sugarcube-MIDI-Controller\/\">Sugarcube Midi Controller<\/a>. Small enough, nice illuminated buttons, some fun features using accellerometers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sugarcube: MIDI and MaxMSP Controller\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/91259876?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; it is a midi controller, meaning that it does not play music by itself but controls a midi player like a PC. So I need to make it more autonomous. So my next project is there : build an easy to use &amp; fun sound box, based on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Sugarcube-MIDI-Controller\"> Amanda\u00a0Ghassaei<\/a>&#8216;s Sugarcube project with specific features like RGB leds, embedded MP3 player and MIDI player, and make it fun for a child !<\/p>\n<p>Still thinking about it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a bit busy lately at work so I did not work a lot on my different projects. But after a discussion with my sister who was complaining about \u00a0the fact that there was no &#8220;good&#8221; music based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/?p=332\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,104],"tags":[88,87,105],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arduino-2","category-juke-box","tag-arduino-mega","tag-music","tag-sound-box-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}