Christophe Favergeon
Published © Apache-2.0

Synthesize music with animations on a Raspberry Pi Pico

Learn how to create a real time MIDI synthesizer with spectrum visualization and no RTOS using a Raspberry Pi Pico

IntermediateFull instructions provided1 hour1,552
Synthesize music with animations on a Raspberry Pi Pico

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Raspberry Pi Pico
Raspberry Pi Pico
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Adafruit NPN 2222A Transistor
Any NPN transistor than can support 5W and with a bandwidth > 20 kHz
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Speaker: 3W, 4 ohms
Speaker: 3W, 4 ohms
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Solderless Breadboard Full Size
Solderless Breadboard Full Size
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Male/Female Jumper Wires
Male/Female Jumper Wires
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Pico-LCD-1.3
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Pico quad expander
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Schematics

How to connect the speaker

Describe how to connect the speaker to the Pico board using a transistor

Code

PicoMusic

Github repository for the demo with all the required dependencies as github submodules.

Credits

Christophe Favergeon

Christophe Favergeon

1 project • 2 followers
DSP and ML software at Arm
Thanks to Len Shustek.

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