Mission Statement for the E-Oc

Alright guys, My first post is going to be a littler briefer then what I had wanted because I have a hot date tonight that I just found out about!

So I am going to do a quick mission statement and tell you what I plan to do and what I want to bring to the Oc with my eletricness (if thats a word haha!)

First and foremost:
Everything that I do from now until the end of this project will be open source, both hardware and software, and completely free for anyone to use for any non-commercial purpose. Distributors that are interested in selling this in their shop, I will be more then willing to neogiate something with you guys, but I believe that certain things in life should be freely shared, and music and knowledge are two of them.


Feature Set for prototype:

1.) Standard 12 hole Oc fingering with notes.
2.) Breath controls volume of out put sound.
3.) Amp plug for headphones, or speakers
4.) Music is played via sampled notes from a normal Oc

So basically it will do everything that a 12 hole Oc will do minus super advanced stuff like half hole covering and the like.

Each hole will be represented by a button, I know that a lot of people dont like buttons but we will worry about input after software.

When the software gets mastered with the feature sets of the community, we will work more on hardware and things like light sensors for buttons, or touch pads, so that we can do kewl stuff like bending a note by covering half the hole.

After the first prototype of software, I will move into using a MIDI chip and synthing the sounds, but for now that is a lot of work and much more expensive.