A soundtrack to your life, step by step
From the beginning of this class, I considered designing a shoe — as is my birthright, being Jessica Shoemaker. After exploring many ideas, I decided on the Musical Shoe: a shoe that averages your walking speed for the past minute and plays a song at that BPM, giving you a personal soundtrack as you walk.
I have successfully created a PCB that takes in speed from the accelerometer and outputs a song through a speaker. Currently, it registers only fast, medium, or slow BPMs. Next steps include refining the system to play songs at precise BPMs.
11/26: Complete PCB operating independently (without being plugged into a computer)
11/28: Complete PCB with a wider variety of songs for more BPM ranges
12/5: 3D print shoe base and attach ribbons and PCB
Rest of December: Debug and fine-tune to a polished final product