Mini Electronic Piano with 555 Timer
Build a simple seven-note electronic keyboard using the versatile 555 timer IC. This project explains the astable multivibrator configuration and how to calculate resistor values for musical notes.
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NTH Music Synthesizer
https://v.kickstarter.com/1579389421_87009b864374ec78ff4dcfab9f0f1a4df92d6372/projects/59424/video-74391-h264_high.mp4 The NTH is an open source music synthesizer featuring instant fun, awesome sound, and a hackable design. The NTH is designed so that a complete beginner can quickly craft incredibly varied timbres. For the synth veteran, the NTH offers relief from layered menus and obscured functions. The NTH puts a smile on the…
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QuNeo, 3D Multi-touch Open Source MIDI & USB Pad Controller
QuNeo is a break-through 3D pad controller for electronic musicians, digital DJs, VJs & DIY hackers providing multi-touch control. While it covers all of the functionality of other pad controllers, QuNeo adds the power of touch recognition in other dimensions. Each of the 27 pads, sliders and rotary sensors are pressure, velocity, and location sensitive….
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Make music with the help of an Arduino-powered hole puncher
Are you interested in carillons? Would you like to play your own music on a carillon? Don’t wast your time in boring exeperiments with paper, squares and scissors, build your first Arduino-powered hole puncher! More info
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WiFi Audio Broadcaster
[bctt tweet=”A transceiver unit to broadcast audio MP3 files over Wi-Fi” username=”OpenElectronics”] In this article, we want to propose you what can be considered as the natural evolution of project Ethernet Broadcaster; the goal is still the same, i.e. allowing broadcasting of music or customizable audio messages. Besides adapting to the ever-growing trend of…
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Turn your Raspberry Pi into a music making machine with Pisound!
Thanks to the pisound board from Blokas, musicians can connect all manner of audio gear to their Raspberry Pi, bringing their projects to a whole new level. Essentially, it’s a HAT for the Raspberry Pi 3 which transforms your Pi into a complete audio workstation! On its surface pisound is the first all around solution for your…
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A full featured mp3 Demoboard
Let’s test out the capabilities of the DFR0299 audio player module, an ideal choice for Arduino but also for many stand-alone applications. In this article, we decided to design and propose a demoboard for the DFR0299 module we already used in the ‘Presepino’ project; this module will function as a development platform for…
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Arduino unique Electromechanical Lithophone
Bespoke Electromechanical Instrument was built by Jay Harrison as part of a dissertation undertaken on the Creative Music Technology degree course at Staffordshire University. The instrument, running on Arduino Mega 2560 is designed to allow each note to be independently placed in a space. In the video below the instrument is arranged in a 24-foot surround configuration…
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Embedded MP3 Player & Recorder: The firmware
In the previous posts we presented the project of an an embedded MP3, capable of playing and recording audio sequences by means of appropriate commands. The interaction modes, as well as the communication interfaces cover a wide range of possibilities, for example it is possible to easily use UART, USB, I²C or bit banging on…
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Embedded MP3 Player & Recorder: How it works
The operation principle of this circuit is very simple and easy to describe. The basic idea consists in supplying a device that is capable of operating since it is first started: this is why we created a software, in order to automatically generate a preset configuration file, with default values, that can be modified at…
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NEOH : buy it instead of 25 speakers!
3D Sound Labs has been already pledged double money of the minimum requested by their Kickstarter campaign. The 3D sound headphones named “Neoh” they are making seems a real disruptive product in that field, equipped with multi-speakers, movement sensors and a music player that does the magic by compensating the realistic sound according to head…
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Embedded MP3 Player & Recorder
It is always convenient to dispose of an easily adaptable module that can play musical tracks: it allows to easily implement vocal syntheses to insert within a promobox, or to place items in the shop windows or in well trafficked areas, or close to automatic doors or to turnstiles, or to other…
