Musical instruments seem like an ideal class of objects to connect to the internet. Unstructured brainstorming and linking here.
Instruments
- Often have built in sensors (pick-ups, transducers, knobs, tuners)
- Often have built in power supplies (9v batteries) or access to power (e.g. phantom power)
- Electric/electronic instruments even more so, acoustic instruments have benefit of lots of open space inside
- Complex emotional and working relationships between instrument and player
- Used in many different contexts, often travel around a lot
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Use Cases
- Constant recording of audio so no genius noodling is ever lost and forgotten
- Multi-instrument performing: add accelerometers, instruments know when they’ve been picked up/put down, IoT–connected mixer can mute automatically.
- Quantified Self-style analytics: amount of time spent playing, volume levels, etc. Lots of potential pretty-graph material
- Meta-music: algorithmically generate music using non-audio data generated by musical instruments
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Hardware, Software
- Smallest Federated Wiki
- Raspberry Pi
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