Fun project ideas

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Karen Brennan

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May 03, 2014

We're at the monthly ScratchEd meetup in Cambridge. In our breakout session, we are sharing ideas for fun projects, with a focus on music.

Session 1: Fun Project Ideas Adam, Barbara, Lorraine, Nancy, Karen

program a song (Frere Jacques, chopsticks)
ideas from Performatics workshop: https://teaching.cs.uml.edu/~heines/TUES/WorkshopInformation.jsp
Musical Buttons with the video camera: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10128168/
Grupo Voces: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1379320/
Starfish Choir: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10128483/

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Derek Breen

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May 06, 2014

I created a demo project for a music teacher friend using the built-in synthesizer to not only play notes from various instruments when characters are clicked, but even using a bit of code and basic music theory to improvise music in the same key.

Karen Brennan

Member

May 03, 2014

Comment from Nancy:
- computers don't necessarily have speakers

Suggestion for Barbara:
- using webcam with game making (e.g. Fruit Ninja, balloon game)