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  • Bela for a wearable dance device to interact with music and sound in real time.

Hey all.

Really hoping to be able to hit the ground running with this project. I'm new to these paths of hardware and am completing this as a project for school. I also plan on fleshing this project out for my senior thesis here at Berklee.

Essentially my goal is to create a wearable device (arm or glove) that a dancer will wear. During her performance/improvisation, the movement data (probably obtained through an IMU) ((I already have a BNO055 for ref.) will be transmitted into MIDI, and then into my DAW to control certain parameters I have it mapped to.

I need to know 1.if this is possible to do with the Bela 2. best way to get the Bela wireless 3. How to get this movement data most effectively into midi!

If anyone would like to send me down the right path...that would be amazing and greatly appreciated. I love the community here and can't wait to get my Bela in the mail.

(BNO055:https://tinkersphere.com/sensors/2374-bno055-absolute-orientation-sensor.html)

Bela is really good at processing sensor data and turning them into audio, Are you planning on having any audio generation or complex sensor processing on Bela itself? If you want the "device" to simply read the sensor data and pass it on to a host device via MIDI, then maybe Bela is not the optimal platform for this project and you are better off with something like the ESP32 THING you mentioned here.