Introduction: The Music of Albania

Since it was Albanian independence day a couple weeks ago, I made a project to show the traditional music in different parts of Albania. I used CPB for this project. The sounds are accompanied by LED strip animations. Everytime you touch the nail, a traditional song from that region will start and each time a different LED strip animation will go along with the song.


Supplies

  • Alligator Clips
  • Nails
  • Baltic Birchwood (⅛”)
  • Battery Pack
  • Circuit Playground Bluefruit
  • Hot Glue & Hot Glue Gun
  • Paint
  • Paper
  • Speaker
  • Hammer
  • LED strip
  • Tape

Step 1: Making the Box

  • Lasercut a box using Baltic Birchwood (1/8")
  • Make a hole on one side of the box to let the speaker and battery pack out of the box
  • Use hot glue to box every side of the box together, besides the top

Step 2: Printing

  • Print the map of Albania in a paper
  • Use a utility knife to cut out only the map part

Step 3: Making the Top of the Box

  • Use a glue stick to stick the map in the top of the box
  • Use a hammer to put the nails in the countries you want to have captive touch

Step 4: Sounds

Step 5: The Code

Attachments

Step 6: The Built

  • Use alligator clips to connect the nails to the touchpads of the CPB
  • Attach the LED strip
  • Attach the speaker
  • Attach the battery
  • To hide the built place it inside the box

Step 7: Attaching the Parts in the Box

  • Paint the box red
  • Use hot glue to attach the battery pack and speaker out of the box
  • Use hot glue to attach the top of the box to the rest of the box
  • Use hot glue and tap to attach the LED strip around the box

Step 8: Enjoy!