Engineering Harmony

Category: Projects

  • Touch sensor quilt block

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    A long time ago I built a quilt that had switches in each block, and this is very similar, though it looks like it uses capacitive touch rather than pressure, which mine used. Either way, cool stuff! https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/12/29/touch-sensor-quilt-block-the-raspberry-pi-official-magazine-issue-161-rpimagazine

  • Connect Four as a musical instrument

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    This is just a fun use of a connect four game board as a musical instrument. It falls squarely in line with the original ideas that inspired Engineering Harmony.

  • Building an electronic floor “piano”

    I’m planning on building a foot-controlled musical instrument. First, I’ll need some floor switches like these: https://www.instructables.com/Floor-Switches-Mats/ I’ll be using some sort of microcontroller or microcomputer, like A Raspberry Pi or a Micro:bit, but I haven’t made that selection yet. It might be something more like this: https://www.instructables.com/Build-an-Easy-Floor-Piano/ I might use this for capacitive sensing…