Green Light for Keyboard Hero

Keyboard Hero's proposal has been approved. The only change in the specs is that now we have to explore the viability of recording and saving from the keyboard.

We have ordered components for the project.

Meetings - September 9, 11, 14, 15, 16th - Proposal Writing v2.0

During these meetings all members were present. We all worked on redacting the proposal and making sure that all the information and specifics of the project were well detailed and thoroughly explained.

We are back to a waiting phase where we need to wait to see if the project is approved or not. Right now we will hold on buying components but we will continue with the designing hardware and software phase. We might also start the coding phase for the User Interface. This will include developing the Tools, Services, and Custom Types that are required to develop a MIDI editing, viewing, and playing software that will also connect to the repository. Therefore the database and link to it from the User Interface will also be designed.

Heroes Meeting - September 7th

During this meeting we discussed our hardware findings. More research needs to be done on certain things. These points were also discussed:

1. Meeting Recurrence
2. Group Rules
3. Project Progress Measuring

For our next meeting all team members must look for all information pertaining to MIDI File Format and MIDI Data Manipulation using JAVA and C. This way we'll be able to make a better Software Plan.

Heroes Meeting - September 1st - Waiting Phase

The proposal has been submitted for approval. In the mean time we are going to start getting more familiarized with our hardware. Right now we will be researching all the components for our project and evaluating different technologies.

The research topics are discussed in meeting:

1. LED Control - Decoders, Multiplexers, Latches, Transistors, Transistor Arrays, FETs, etc. - All
2. LEDs - Carlos
3. LCD Display - Juan
4. Push Buttons - Do we want them to be integrated in the LCD Display chosen? Cost. Juan
5. USB Module - All
6. Power Supply - Options (battery, outlet), duration, voltage regulators. - Lisela
7. MIDI Circuit - Lisela
8. MCU - All
9. Memory Module - Cost. Carlos and check Juan’s Micro 2 project.

All members were present for this meeting.