One of the earliest digital music synthesizers (built in the 1960s at the University of Illinois Uses the original TTL boards from the Illiac II (only place in the world that uses these boards as they were intended to be used) Uses random number generators and human input to improvise music. Its musical output never repeats Originally designed with 24 individually controlled hardwired speakers that lit up when a signal was sent to it

Use existing TI development boards and Bluetooth technology utilized during the spring 2014 semester to wirelessly transmit sound from the Sal- Mar Construction to newly designed speakers Create a fully functional speaker prototype and demo within the museum’s space Construct the Speaker and Bluetooth module within an existing museum grade light housing Utilize the spring semester design as a reference for final prototype speaker development

Last semester’s students completed a proof-of-concept system design, but were unable to create a fully functional prototype. The fall semester’s students will have access to all of this documentation and hardware. The proposed design parts in yellow are what you need to implement.

Scott Schwartz, Archivist for Music and Fine Arts and Director of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music (SACAM) Phone: (217) On-site access to the Sal-Mar Construction and Scott at SACAM: 236 Harding Band Building 1103 South Sixth Street Champaign, Illinois