The goal of our project was to create an innovative way for music enthusiasts to find a more enjoyable and creative way to
tool with music involving adapted technology. The objective of this project is to further enhance the way musicians can
adjust their music using American sign language gestures and see their output displayed on a screen using an LPU.
Within the project, there are two optical designs provided by our two photonic team members. The first optical design is
the lens system. It requires the designing and implementation of a two-lens system as well as introducing an aperture to
further help with depth of field. The two lenses were designed in a way to meet the effective focal length needed in their
properties and distances from one another. The first lens is a bi-convex lens followed by a plano-convex lens, helping
ultimately to help reduce the potential aberrations from occurring in the image. The careful design is to balance image
quality with field of view. The second optical design is the designing of the laser projection unit. The LPU is used to
create a GUI out of a laser projector. This required the design of a two-mirror system, one of which is going to scan in the
horizontal direction, and the other in the vertical direction. It also required the research of a suitable laser diode and
photodiode. The layout of the LPU was also something that was carefully designed, as the laser path length and angles
had to be precise. Our project’s main application is for allowing a simpler way to create music without the use of a
keyboard. When compared to other products with the same application, our project is better in that it uses light to detect
our hands instead of sound or tactile buttons.
Project Website
(Must be on UCF WIFI or VPN to access)Advisors: Dr. Patrick. L. LiKamWa, Dr. Mingjie Lin
Sponsor: None