LEKeys

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  Our UI

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  Our video demo

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  The piano key lights up - guide you on which note to press!

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  The piano key lights up - guide you on which note to press!

Inspiration

As kids, we hated our piano lessons, yet loved playing Piano Tiles. Taking inspiration from the infamous game, we created LEKeys

What it does

LEKeys is a piano with illuminated keys that also links to a web app that guides users through the learning journey, making learning piano more affordable and fun!

How we built it

For our hardware, we inserted LED lights under the keyboard keys. We used Arduino Uno to link the LED lights to nodejs.

Challenges we ran into

We had to make sure that the LED lights fit under the keys while ensuring that those keys were still playable. Our team made a lot of adjustments to the keyboard, and we were able to get it to work!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to pump out a clean-looking UI and highly responsive hardware.

What we learned

We learned how to use Arduino and nodejs, as well as come up with ideas and risk mitigations

What's next for LEKeys

We are looking at importing a music sheet database to teach users to learn how to sightread. We are also thinking of implementing learning trees.

Built With

• arduino
• express.js
• midi.js
• nextjs
• node.js