NomadPad

The protable MIDI table

PHASE 1

The concept

11/13/05- A portable rubber mat that will allow the musician to play music anywhere. The sound will be in MIDI for this prototype.

I will be attempting to wire touch sensors and sliders to a pic, all sandwiched in thin rubber mats. The difficult part will be to make the connections as souple as possible so that when the mat is rolled up, the connections will withold the wear and tear.

The materials

I found Canal Rubber which has an outrageous variety of rubber in all shapes, colors, types and thickeness. I need to go to the store and talk to someone there about non-conductive, flexible, durable and heat resistant to name a few.

I am waiting for an order of touch sensors

I want to incorporate LEDs as indicators ei: on/off, function selected, etc.

I am interested to use a proto board from Micro Eng. Labs PROTO 18 with easy soldering, available at Jameco. (+ 18 pin seat for a pic. see scott)

Also, i will hopefully use velcro strips to keep everything together and allow me to open the prototype to work on it.

The collaboration

Just before class, I was talkign to Raudia about the final profjects we had in mind. We are thinking of combining the projects during the last few prototyping stages.