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.

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

• 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

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

• 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

• Download the sounds you would like to use
• Use the app Audacity to convert the audios to the acceptable CPB standards

• 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

• 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