For my mouse hack project, I was extremely interested in movement creating sound, particularly dance moves making beats. The idea of how that would happen changed a few times, but I knew I wanted it to be wearables. Originally I had thought of extending the buttons into shoes that could be stepped on or a belt that would create beats with the movement of hips. It took a bit of time and quite a bit of brainstorming to come up with suspenders.
I extended the left and right buttons, attaching a ball tilt switch to each. The ball tilt switches were sewn to the approximate location of the top of the shoulders. The board was sewn to the center of the Y of the suspenders, so that the wires wouldn't be pulled as much. Then in Processing: left-click played a snare drum sample and the right-click played a bass kick sample. Sometimes the tilt switches were very sensitive and sometimes they weren't responsive at all. If I were to redo this project, I'd probably try a different type of switch that might be more consistent or position the tilt switch differently.
In the future, I hope to expand on this project, using a keyboard hack, so that there can be more sample sounds to allow people to produce a song by moving more parts of the body.
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