

We’ve seen how different folks are creating collective digital stories in community-based co-design projects using emergent approaches. Technical Introduction We’ve also started exploring how we can write programming code using these concepts to interact with analog and digital electronic circuits in order to develop working electronic tools.Now, let’s turn our attention to the tools that might facilitate our telling of counterstories.


So far, we’ve used the Circuit Playground Express microcontroller and MakeCode programming language to learn essential coding concepts. Of the instruments considered, which ones might make use of digital technologies? Of programming languages?.How might they be constructed? What materials are used? How does material choice influence use of, and sound creation by, the instrument?.How are they played? What similarities and differences are there across instruments?.Take a few minutes to bring up a mental picture of each musical instrument you’ve played yourself, or which you’ve watched others play.
