Code Club - Mini Band Project

Make your own mini band! You and your friends can form your own finger-sized band and rock out using Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Learn how to build circuits with sensors and outputs and write a simple programme to control your instruments.

Instructions

The instructions are in the writeup directory; you'll probably want the instructions PDF. Code samples are in the release directory.

You will make:

• A guitar
• A set of drums
• A pair of maracas

You will need:

• 1 x Raspberry Pi (plus monitor and power supply)
• 1 x Arduino Uno boards (with USB cables)
• 1 x strip potentiometer
• 2 x tilt sensors
• 4 x piezo buzzers (the type in greetings cards, easy to get from Maplin)
• 7 × 10K resistors
• Bread boards (1 per instrument)
• Card
• Sugru (or some other modelling material)
• Electrical tape
• Plastic drinking straw
• Pencil
• Coloured pens (optional)

Software requirements:

• Scratch
• IDE developer environment for Arduino
• Py Serial library

Drum Kit

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Guitar

Maracas

Useful links:

• Pictures from the hack day where this was put together
• Ardunio code