Soundbeam Chords (Arduino)

The Soundbeam Chords plays different chords depending upon the movement detected by the [Ping))) Ultrasonic sensor[[1]]. The sensor is connected to the Arduino Uno board which send digital pulses the sensor and measures how long did the waves to reflect from a surface and come back. This time then can be used to calculate the distance. The Arduino Board was programmed to convert the time into distance and send data to the computer using serial port. Any software can have access to this data from the serial port. The MaxMsp was used to build a program that converts the data received from Arduino into musical chords. Serial object that is present in the MaxMsp reads the data which is then connected to a pre-built module of EAMIR.