We had a great finale for the interactive music studio. A few people from MIT media Lab and Beaver school joined us for the review. Here are some images that show how much fun everybody was having!

Diallo and Chris working on their project. After failing to install their project in two different rooms because maintenance did not approve, they decided to install the project in our studio room.

Here is Nicky and David calibrating their vision system. They really struggled to get their vision fast enough so it can detect a flying paper airplane. Rather than using the built-in video camera, they got a fast webcam with better drivers. Currently the system is able to process 25 frames/second.

Here is Jake, Luke, and Henry getting help from Eric with some Processing stuff. The guys did an amazing job getting their system working. They also ripped off the whole chair to setup their LED’s on top.

Vanessa and Hayley are painting their city backdrop. They spent a long time figuring out all the details of the cityscape.

Today students started working on their final projects. You can check each student’s page here. We have super cool projects underway, so stay tuned for more updates. We are all hyped for our big show on Friday.

Here is another video, courtesy of Nobuyuki, documenting students’ progress on their mini interactive projects.

We spent the day at the new Media Lab playing with the drawdio kit which was designed by Jay Silver, a PhD student at the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the ML. The movie below was created by Nobuyuki Ueda who is a visiting professor at the ML.

Eric started the day by showing a little bit about Scratch and the PicoBoard. The students were asked to design musical instruments which they could interact with using their body.

After that, students jumped to the table to prototype their ideas.

Here is Nicky and Eric celebrating after figuring out how to connect the resistors

Harrison testing his design

Julian and Hayley presenting their project

Vanessa and Diallo

Today we started our interactive music studio which is taught by Eric Rosenbaum from the Media Lab. Here is Eric showing some inspirational examples.

Eric showed how to record/edit music using Audacity. The students then took a mic and went around the school recording different sounds that they will use to compose new pieces. Here is Luke and Henry dancing on the steps.

Julian and Nicky knocking at the window.

Jake and Dialo recording the interesting voices their music teacher is making

Jake and Dialo are starting to edit their music in GarageBand. Tomorrow morning we will be reviewing/sharing what the students created.