Published October 13, 2020

Games cause Kindness

DIG 3602 Project 2

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Story

For my project, I made a game controller with two buttons that play feel good or upbeat music to protest video games cause violence. Video games get a lot of criticism for having violent games which makes people believe that is why kids or people are violent. So I made this controller that plays happy music to show it can make kids and people happy and kind. The controller plays two different melodies to songs. "Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby MeFerrin and "Keep Your Head Up" by Andy Grammer. It also lights up blue that you can see through the cracks of the controller.

How it works is the controller has two buttons made of foil. The CPX uses the touch sensors on the board. Wires connect the foil to the right pins on the CPX. When you touch the foil buttons, the board will play a melody and light up blue. The controller is made out of a cereal box. I used tape and glue to hold it together and make it look like a NES controller. The code for the controller uses a if/else statements. If pin 1 or 2 is touch, the CPX will play that song and light up. To have the CPX play the melodies to these songs. I had to manually put in each note one by one with the right beat count to play. All the wires and CPX fit inside the controller. However, when the battery was connect to the CPX. I could only get one touch of each button to play, I guess it didn't have enough power. I kept the CPX plugged into the computer to show how it works.

Link to video: https://youtu.be/v1aGuguEhcw

Code

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forever(function () {
    if (input.touchA1.isPressed()) {
        light.showRing(
        `blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue`
        )
        music.playTone(988, music.beat(BeatFraction.Double))
        music.playTone(831, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.playTone(740, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.playTone(831, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(554, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(622, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.playTone(740, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(622, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(554, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(494, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(554, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(622, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(554, music.beat(BeatFraction.Double))
        music.playTone(554, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.rest(music.beat(BeatFraction.Double))
        music.playTone(740, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(622, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(554, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(494, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(554, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(622, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(554, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.playTone(554, music.beat(BeatFraction.Double))
        music.rest(music.beat(BeatFraction.Double))
        music.playTone(622, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(554, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(494, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(415, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(494, music.beat(BeatFraction.Double))
        music.playTone(494, music.beat(BeatFraction.Double))
    } else if (input.touchA2.isPressed()) {
        light.showRing(
        `blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue`
        )
        music.playTone(330, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.playTone(330, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.rest(music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(330, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(294, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(294, music.beat(BeatFraction.Double))
        music.rest(music.beat(BeatFraction.Double))
        music.playTone(330, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.playTone(330, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.rest(music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(330, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.rest(music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(659, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.rest(music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(659, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.playTone(587, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.rest(music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(587, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(659, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.rest(music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(392, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Quarter))
        music.playTone(523, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(440, music.beat(BeatFraction.Half))
        music.playTone(659, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
        music.playTone(587, music.beat(BeatFraction.Whole))
    } else {
        light.clear()
    }
})

Games cause Kindness

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David Linaburg

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