Sorry to bump an old thread, but I have had an idea for an Arduino project..

It's sort of a cheap Kaoss Pad... Using a mouse. Taking in the X,Y co-ordinates and modifying the sound based on where the mouse is. Then the mouse buttons can change key, and the scroll wheel for pitch.

Can anyone tell me if this would be feasible with an Arduino? I have to build and program a small microprocessor system for Uni this year, so I want to get used to programming a small system like this.

Input
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/ComponentLib/Ps2mouse
(Or perhaps http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Ping?from=Tutorial.UltrasoundSensor)

Output
http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2007/11/11/arduino-sound-part-1/
http://shiftmore.blogspot.com/2010/01/quick-and-dirty-arduino-midi-over-usb.html

Originally Posted by capnPedro
Input
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/ComponentLib/Ps2mouse
(Or perhaps http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Ping?from=Tutorial.UltrasoundSensor)

Output
http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2007/11/11/arduino-sound-part-1/
http://shiftmore.blogspot.com/2010/01/quick-and-dirty-arduino-midi-over-usb.html

Cool, thanks. I'll take a look at those and see what I can come up with.

How is this different / better than a BASIC stamp?