This tutorial shows how to play MIDI notes from an Arduino. MIDI, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface, is a useful protocol for controlling synthesizers, sequencers, and other musical devices. MIDI devices are generally grouped in to two broad classes: controllers (i.e. devices that generate MIDI signals based on human actions) and synthesizers (including samplers, sequencers, […]
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I play chess pretty poorly and have always wanted to get better, but I don’t even own a chess set. I decided I wanted to make my own set, but with a twist. I have made a chess board with a secret drawer that is locked unless the pieces are arranged on the board in
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This is my Halloween costume for the year 2013. It’s been in the works for about a year and has taken quite a few man hours to create. The screen is 14 by 15 pixels, so, pretty low resolution but it can still do some fun things. It is physically flexible in all directions, although
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I could not find instructions on a good Arduino chess clock so instead I built my own which I will describe here. Step 1: Parts list Step 2: Prototyping The whole project can be split into these parts: 1. getting the circuit right 2. the program 3. the physical layout This step is optional since
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Egads! LED Goggles you can see through (surprisingly well, too)! They pulse subtly, making them so cold and dehumanizing. They were totally perfect for the character I was going after – Mr Freeze. It was my first time really playing with LEDs and Arduinos, so it was a good learning curve hugely aided by the
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Theremin is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after the Russian inventor, Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. A typical theremin musical instrument is shown in Fig. 1. This article explains how you can build an optical theremin using an Arduino Uno board and some
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Would you like to surprise someone with a song? Things used in this project Hardware components Arduino MKR1000 × 1 Buzzer × 1 5 mm LED: Red × 1 5 mm LED: Green × 1 Resistor 330 ohm × 1 Story Would you like to surprise someone with a song? You pretend you forgot a
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Arduino Mkr1000 + Uno + Leonardo + Java = Christmas shooting game. Things used in this project Hardware components Arduino UNO & Genuino UNO × 1 Arduino Leonardo × 1 Arduino MKR1000 × 1 3.7V battery × 1 HC-06 Bluetooth Module × 2 Arcade Button × 1 joystick × 1 Story I made so cool
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This reaction time game tests the time taken by two players to react, and declare the fastest one as a winner. To do this I am using external interrupts and pin change interrupts in atmega328p. It gives four chance to each play, time of each chance is summed up and then the player with minimum
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The objective of this project is to provide a multiplayer “pitch tuning” game in which the computer can determine the frequency of players’ input notes. The system guides two users through various states in which they are each given the chance to match a tone randomly selected by the computer. Players select their tone by
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