Programmers; Help!

[TAC]

Hi all.
I am looking to build an electronic device that reads sound/frequency via vibration rather than a microphone for a business idea that I have.

I need it to do the following:
-Record the the vibrations from any sound the user chooses choose.
-Store that frequency pattern
-Then continuously listen for that pattern.
-If it hears the pattern, I need it to send a signal to a database tracking each individual device.
-Upon the database receiving signal, needs to have an automated message sent to the user of the device notifying the activity

My question is this:
It's been a long time since I've done any programming. What software would I need to acquire to program the controller for all of the parts? I need something that can show me feedback from the parts for troubleshooting.

I want to get started on a prototype soon. I don't know exactly what parts I will need, but once I have some software. I am taking apart my Snark guitar tuner which uses microphone or vibration to let me know what note each string is tuned to. Once I can plug it into something, I can get to work.

Any advice would be a great help.
If you happen to live in Houston, TX; I can bring you on the team as I have someone to finance this project since my ass is broke.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Seems more of a question for electronics engineers than programmers.

I suppose you'd need an FPGA/Arduino of some sort and some handy assembly IDE.

 

[TAC]

You are most definitely correct.

 

[Architect]

No you don't need a FPGA for this dinky thing, and there's no difference between "vibration" and "sound", they're both the same thing.

Just record your microphone signal, take a FFT and get a spectrum (the frequencies), and so on. Really if anything you're doing some DSP and machine learning here (or just some kind of basic pattern recognition with windowing, but again you need some DSP). Meaning, if you don't know what you're doing a few posts on a forum aren't going to help.

Hook up with somebody locally who has expertise in this.

 

[bartoli]

No you don't need a FPGA for this dinky thing, and there's no difference between "vibration" and "sound", they're both the same thing.

Just record your microphone signal, take a FFT and get a spectrum (the frequencies), and so on. Really if anything you're doing some DSP and machine learning here (or just some kind of basic pattern recognition with windowing, but again you need some DSP). Meaning, if you don't know what you're doing a few posts on a forum aren't going to help.

Hook up with somebody locally who has expertise in this.

Basically what i would have said.