Project history

Hardware, AR, robotics, and early work

Visual Music Assistant

A HoloLens app that teaches piano from a MIDI file, paired with a custom PCB using a microphone and FFT to detect acoustic piano notes.

Hardware and AR eraNo demo listedMusic educationAR appHoloLensMIDIPCB designFFTAudio analysis

Writeup

What this project explored

A HoloLens app that teaches piano from a MIDI file, paired with a custom PCB using a microphone and FFT to detect acoustic piano notes.

This comes from the physical-computing side of the work: hardware, robotics, AR, and embodied interfaces where software has to meet messy real-world constraints.

The project is part of a broader pattern in Kyle's work: build the smallest useful version, learn from the behavior of the system, then use that prototype to decide whether the idea deserves more time, polish, or a totally different direction.