Enhancing Visitor Experience through Adaptive Light and Sound
The Sal-Mar Construction
Enhancing Visitor Experience through Adaptive Light and
Sound
The Sal-Mar Construction
What is The Sal-Mar Construction?One of the earliest digital
music synthesizers (built in the 1960s at the University of
Illinois
Uses the original TTL boards from the Illiac II (only place in
the world that uses these boards as they were intended to be
used)
Uses random number generators and human input to improvise
music. Its musical output never repeats
Originally designed with 24 individually controlled hardwired
speakers that lit up when a signal was sent to it
The Sal-Mar ConstructionIn Performance
Expectations of the project TeamUse existing TI development
boards and Bluetooth technology utilized during the spring 2014
semester to wirelessly transmit sound from the Sal-Mar Construction
to newly designed speakers
Create a fully functional speaker prototype and demo within the
museums space
Construct the Speaker and Bluetooth module within an existing
museum grade light housing
Utilize the spring semester design as a reference for final
prototype speaker development
Last semesters students completed a proof-of-concept system
design, but were unable to create a fully functional prototype. The
fall semesters students will have access to all of this
documentation and hardware.
The proposed design parts in yellow are what you need to
implement.Spring Semester Speaker System DesignScott Schwartz,
Archivist for Music and Fine Arts and Director of the Sousa
Archives and Center for American Music (SACAM)
Email: [email protected]: (217)-333-4577
On-site access to the Sal-Mar Construction and Scott at
SACAM:
236 Harding Band Building1103 South Sixth StreetChampaign,
Illinois 61820
http://archives.library.illinois.edu/sousa/Sal-Mar
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