The Team

Matthew Avison

Hardware Lead, Capacitive Touch Subsystem

Matt

Matt is responsible for building the capactitive touch keyboard. This includes designing the capaticitance calibration system, programing for voltage drop detection, input and sensor timing, and exporting the results of the sensors to the MIDI subsystem.
Matt is also the hardware lead, responsible for assembling the final prototype and ensuring all subsystems function together without fault.
Matt also contributed to planning and designing the custom PCB, along with the design and manufacturing of the custom device housing.

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Carley Davis

Team Coordinator, Power Supply Subsystem

Carley

Carley is reponsible for building the power supply subsystem, which includes the battery supply, power controls, battery status indicator and the three voltage regulation systems.
Carley is also the team coordinator and PCB population lead, responsible for team organization, meetings, schedule management, team documentation, the team website along with soldering the final PCBs.

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Ivan Norman

MIDI Subsystem

Ivan

Ivan is responsible for building the MIDI subsytem, which includes programming the VS1053B to take the sensor results from the capacitive touch keyboard and turn it into an auidio file output. This includes programming multiple instruments onto the board, and insuring each key pressed will play a different note.

Cory Vandergrift

Budget Manager, User Interface

Cory

Cory is responsible for creating the Anything Instrument's user interface. This includes creating a user friendly systems menu with selectable menu options and allowing the user selections to control various components of the overall system. This also includes implementing the rotary encoder to allow the user to control the system.
Cory is also the team budget lead, responsible for placing and tracking orders, as well as keeping track of our teams financial status