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Mike Cook has rigged up a solenoid-controlled glockenspiel to play some of Rogers and Hammerstein’s finest. Just brilliant. He’s hand-built a simple buffer board to intermediate between the Raspberry...
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Music hacks, Raspberry Pi synthesiser
We’ve spent the last few days at the Turing Festival in Edinburgh. And the best thing we did (that party with the free whisky and the accelerometer-jousting aside) was visiting Music Hack Scotland,...
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Christmas music and lights, synched with a Pi
Chivalry Timbers (I have a feeling that’s not his real name) has gone one step further than all those people who were making flashing pumpkins earlier in the year. He’s hooked up his Pi to a...
View ArticleBeetBox – music employing capacitive touch, root veg and a Pi
This has to win Liz’s Project of the Year Award (there is no prize). Regular readers will know that I go all wibbly over music projects that use the Raspberry Pi. And that I’m a very keen cook. What...
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Music hacks: guitar effects, and an electronic tuner
Regular readers will know that I’m a particular sucker for musical hackery involving a Raspberry Pi. I’ve got two really terrific examples to share today. First up, here’s a guitar effects box from...
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Raspberry Pi, for all your 50s diner needs
Have you ever been to a cafe or restaurant with 1950s jukebox wallboxes in each booth? Wallboxes were an extension for a jukebox, making it more convenient to select music right from your table. You’d...
View ArticlePi synthesisers
On the road back from Wales this weekend, we listened to Liz’s Playlist for Driving Long Distances. Gary Numan’s Cars came on. (I am nothing if not literal-minded.) We started talking about the...
View ArticleNintendo audio – on analogue instruments
I don’t know much about this project. I spotted it earlier today on Twitter, where all I had to go on was this: I have a friend named Dave; Dave is a genius. You all need to check out his latest...
View ArticleRaspyFi – a distro for music lovers
RaspyFi was brought to our attention a few days ago: it’s a distro designed especially for those with big media libraries who are using their Pis to listen to music. If you’re one of those people (I...
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Sonic Pi – a free music and computing resource for teachers, and for the rest...
Carrie Anne Philbin, an absolutely inspirational CS teacher of the sort I wish had been around when I was a kid, has been doing a lot of work with the Pi in her lessons over the last year or so. She’s...
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Gesture detecting air guitar glove with added head banging goodness
Clive: We like wearable computers; we like music; but most of all we like wearing Blake’s 7 style gauntlets, playing air guitar and head banging. So we were delighted when Adam Smith-Kipnis of Team...
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Music hack of the decade: Panflute Hero!
Jhonny Göransson was part of the team that made what’s simply the daftest and most wonderful music hack we’ve seen so far. The moment he tweeted about it last night, we knew we had to show it to you as...
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Glock around the clockenspiel
Are you a primary or secondary teacher in the UK? Do you want some free CPD? Apply to join our free Raspberry Picademy here at Pi Towers in Cambridge with our amazing education team: closing date for...
View ArticleEasy as Pi Piano
I’m on the fence about whether or not this is an effective way to learn how to play the piano: but it’s definitely an effective way to learn about electronics, Python, servo motors, and why lasers are...
View ArticleBack to the Future theme tune, played by disk drives
YouTuber Arganalth has an interesting hobby: music production using disk drives. His channel contains a whole host of musical masterpieces conducted using an array of various disk drives, programmed to...
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Joytone
What do you get if you cross a Raspberry Pi; 57 geometrically tiled, thumb-sized joysticks; a spot of multiplexing; and some Bach? A completely new musical instrument, that’s what. David Sharples says:...
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Game of Thrones Nintendo keytar hack
What do you get if you cross a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), a Guitar Hero Controller, a Famicom Controller, a Raspberry Pi and a toy keyboard? You don’t *really* get a duck-billed platypus, but...
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Sonic Pi v2.0 competition for schools is launched!
This week, Dr Sam Aaron released the much anticipated final version of Sonic Pi v2.0. It will be replacing Sonic Pi v1 on Raspbian very soon, and you will be able to get it via our Downloads page (we...
View ArticleSonic Dreams with Meta-eX and Sonic Pi
Dr Sam Aaron is the creator of our musical programming environment, Sonic Pi, and a researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab by day. By night he’s something else altogether. The music...
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PiPiano: a musical, educational add-on board
Last week we received a surprise parcel from Mike Horne, containing a new add-on board for us to look at. Mike introduced it to us: It’s called the PiPiano and was designed and developed by 14-year-old...
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