Music Blocks/2025-01-15-meeting

Lesson plan generator

Ajeet

Model abstract layer (to switch layers)

GSoC idea: Add a feature to create step-by-step instructions, preferably with images, in the lesson plan generator

Q: Do we deploy first, or do we work on improvements over the summer before deploying?

A: We deploy as soon as we can. That will help people test our work, help us work, and will also help us ask for more resources.

Adding new instrument samples

Om Santosh

Q: How do you add a new instrument, like harmonium?

A: You follow the instructions in the README inside samples folder.

Training an LLM on our MB projects through images

Save block artwork as PNG.

Discussion: It's important to make sure that blocks don't overlap before doing this.

Dark mode

Diwangshu

Diwangshu presented dark mode.

Two munsel value steps... In MB parlance, you want at least 20-40 contrast.

Mobile and play only mode

Justin

Submitted a proposal for mobile

Play only mode

https://hackmd.io/@vL9hDslER6afpEiuTAQlWA/B1eFBamvJe

Discussion: Making headway on this is great, but we may need to make some more radical changes in order to really solve the problem at hand.

...: Do we want to enable horizontal scroll? It may be worth exploring triggering the "home" functionality instead (to organize the blocks on the screen).

MostlyK

https://sugar-docs-ai.streamlit.app/

Working with James about fixing dependency issues.

Mentioned that Sugar AI (or maybe something inside inside) seems to be not completely free/libre.

Color Detection

Muhammad Haroon

Lightness darkness, hue, and chromatisity.

Q: What's the next step?

A: Implement into MB first (then detect values within our language.)

Nikhil

Asked ChatGPT and Claude to interpret a HTML.

Based on this research, we may want to try JSON instead.

Discussion: Which file will be the better for kids?