My final project started out with a brainstorming session. I wanted to integrate sound and visuals and looked though the list of arduino addons. My original idea was to have a virtual keyboard in PureData and integrate it with spraypaint, so that as the user was playing music, each note would cause paint to spray onto a spinning sheet creating a visual counterpart to the piece. The plan was to have servos attached to arms that would trigger cans of spraypaint. However the Achilles heel of the project was that I underestimated the force that would be required to spray the can. More Tommorow.

Here is the finished product:

I had to scrap the spray can idea because the servos couldnt handle it, however I did adapt the project slightly to include qtips that were dabbed in paint in place of the spray. The pure data portion worked out pretty well because I found some nice keyboard samples online to use.  One thing I was especially pleased with was how the arduino was able to provide both input and output.  Overall despite a few bumps the final project turned out better than I expected.

-Isaac