M4PWCW (Machine for People Who Can´t Whistle) is a musical instrument devoted to solve some persons inabilty to produce sound while blowing air (vulgo: Whistling).
This interface was developed as an exercise for Tom Igoe's Physical Computing class; the challenge was to find a problem and solve it with an adequate interface.
The team (Rui Pereira, Aislinn Dewey and Neilson Abeil) was inspired by childhood traumatic experiences resulting from whistling inability.
Our Solution: we developed a minimal interface in order to take advantage of the main actions from which whistling results (blowing air with your mouth). Pieces of paper attached to 'flex sensors' became an intuitive and responsive interface for the synthesis of electronic whistling.
