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Disco-Cats: Arduinos + ML Music

written by Gati Aher on | 1 min read
tags: Olin College: FA2021 Principals of Integrated Engineering

My team spent 6 weeks building an interactive music visualization system that uses Arduinos, motors, an LED matrix, and sound to express musical pieces generated with machine learning!

I learned how to (1) design an intuitive UI (2) use Google’s Magenta multi-track VAE model to generate music based on user input (3) transmit the MIDI bitstream over serial (3) extract pitch, instrument, and duration information from the midi bitstream in real time (4) efficiently control an LED matrix and motors.