The Elements

The song by Tom Lehrer, with the periodic table humming along.

My 7-year-old daughter has become obsessed with this song. While she was at school and I was home sick, I put this together to help us memorize the complete lyrics.

This is attempt at using the audio API. I've totally cribbed off of supersynth.

Here's a screenshot of the program in action:

Controls

You can control it with:

• Left arrow: back a bit
• Right arrow: forward a bit
• Up arrow: faster
• Down arrow: slower
• Space: pause or play

To Use

The auido works in Firefox and Chrome (if you have audio extensions enabled).

Using Node.JS and NPM, you can:

• git clone the project
• cd The-Elements
• npm install (this one time only)
• node server.js

Now go to localhost:3000 in your browser.

Node.JS isn't necessary. You just need to serve the contents of public as a root directory somehow. (If you prefer to do this with Apache or nginx, please send me a pull request with your config!)

Dependencies

• audiolib.js
• music.js

To Do

• Color-code sections of periodic table
• Disco light dancing during interludes