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A first draft video!

A project log for Stylish!

A most stylish wearable music synthesizer! A real stylus based monophonic music synthesizer built into a giant trucker belt buckle!

t-b-trzepaczT. B. Trzepacz 10/06/2018 at 14:430 Comments

Rather than sleep, I decided to get at least one pass made on the video required for the Hackaday Prize entry. HERE IT IS!
It isn't perfect by any means, but I think it get the point across.

In this test video, for the first time, I perform a complete song with "Stylish!" 

This is the first working prototype of Stylish! and there is still a LOT of work to be done before it can be made available to the general public.

Unfortunately, the LED ring kinda died in the middle of the second test run for this song, so it isn't spinning and flashing as much as I'd like. Also, some of the great intended features like sound editing, multiple patches, and LED animations just haven't been implemented yet. The 2nd board is gonna be a huge improvement over this one!

I can't say that I did a perfect job playing the song, either. The stylus is currently just a tiny length of stiff copper wire... perhaps a little too tiny. Between that and the bandaid on my finger, it was difficult to keep it from sliding up. More things to fix in the future.

Anyway, I hope you like the demo. Maybe I'll have a better one tomorrow!

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