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[Rohit Gupta] wrote in to share this touchscreen piano project he built around the TI Launchpad. It provided a way for him to explore using a resistive digitizer found on a lot of mobile devices. These are simply stuck to the top of LCD screens and replacements are inexpensive, but salvaging one from old hardware is an option as well. The first thing he did was to test the four outputs of the … [Read more...]
We don't know if typing your Facebook updates from a piano keyboard counts as practicing or not. But if you want to give it a try here's how. [Zach] wrote in to our tips line with his latest ASETNIOP hack which uses a MIDI piano keyboard to touch type on a computer. Last July was when we first heard about ASETNIOP. It's a chorded typing system which at the time was aimed at, but not limited to, … [Read more...]
This pair of musical keyboard hacks both use light to detect inputs. The pair of tips came in on the same day, which sparks talk of consipiracy theory here at Hackaday. Something in the weather must influence what types of projects people take on because we frequently see trends like this one. Video of both projects is embedded after the jump. On the left is a light-sensitive keyboard which … [Read more...]
[Hasbi Sevinç] is using perishable goods in his electronics project. The orange, tomato, and two apples seen above act as keys for the virtual piano. The concept is the same as the Makey Makey which is often demonstrated as a banana piano. This implementation uses an Arduino to read the sensors and to connect to the computer running the piano program. You can see there's a fair amount of … [Read more...]
Building a MIDI device is always a great microcontroller project, and nearly everyone has an old toy keyboard lying around in the back of a closet or in the basement. [JenShen] decided to take one of these toy keyboards and build a MIDI keyboard. The keyboard [JenShen] used was a simple Casio keyboard with built-in voices. After tearing out the guts of the keyboard, the only thing that remained … [Read more...]
Unlike the traditional ebony and ivory found on pianos, isomorphic keyboards arrange buttons on a grid. This makes every chord the same shape, and to transpose a piece it's simply a matter of moving your fingers a few places to the left or right. [Brett Park] sent in an isomorphic keyboard he built loaded up with LEDs, and we're thinking it the perfect instrument for musicians looking to move up … [Read more...]
[Chris] picked up a baby grand. Of course for a complex mechanical device made out of wood, it wasn't in the best shape. He's doing his best to refurbish this $350 piano and turn it into something that plays and sounds like a $200,000 concert grand The 1941 Kimball baby grand piano [Chris] picked up for $350 was a complete mess when it arrived in his house. After cleaning up the wood and … [Read more...]
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