Parthenope

Parthenope is a musical siren initially created for WPI's Music, Perception, and Robotics lab during the A18 practicum.

To access the original code switch to the V1 branch.

Things being done in this version

Hardware:

• Quieter motors/drivers to eliminate high pitched whine
• More powerful motors to eliminate the hand spinning setup step
• Motor controllers that can break to slow disk - for use in disk speed control
• Change to a larger embedded board with Ethernet
• More disks for a larger range
• Frame to attach all disks to
• RGB LED lights!
• Better air system that can play multiple notes
• Dedicated power supplies

Software:

• Multiple playing modes (single register, multi register, analog control, etc)
• Send disk speed in rps from max to the nucleo (MIDI pitch bend?)
• Ethernet communication