Published May 25, 2018

Unravel Preset Piano Easy Arduino (Even a Ghoul Can Make It)

This is an easy how-to make a mini-piano using Arduino, including a preset song!

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Unravel Preset Piano Easy Arduino (Even a Ghoul Can Make It)

Things used in this project

Hardware components

SparkFun Pushbutton switch 12mm

4 for notes and 1 for the melody :)

Jumper wires (generic)

5 for the buttons, 2 for the speaker and 1 to close electric circuit

Buzzer

For the sounds!

Arduino UNO

Breadboard (generic)

I use a smaller breadboard with less rows, but this is actually much better for more notes.

Resistor 1k ohm

One for every button

Software apps and online services

Arduino IDE

Story

Down below the most recent version

Introduction

So first off, I had to make an electric device for a school project. I wanted to do something not too hard, but also something that's in my interest. When I was looking at random projects I saw a mini-piano arduino instructable and. I immediately knew what I and my partner were going to do. The video above shows a demonstration. It's an easy project using the arduino program and it's pretty self-explanatory: you press one of the first four buttons and the buzzer will play a note. You can code whatever note you want and I chose from left to right the piano notes G4, A4, A#4 and C5. It's too bad, but only one note can be played at the time. The fifth button is coded for a melody. Which means that when you press it a song, which you can code, will play. The song in the video is Unravel from the popular anime Tokyo Ghoul. I didn't have enough time to do the whole opening, so it's only the first 30seconds, however, I will update this instructable until I got the whole opening song. I used this video as a reference:

If you want to make do a song yourself using Arduino my guess is it'd take at least an hour or two, depending on the difficulty and different tone lengths.

1. Setting up the hardware

1.1 Buttons

First off, attach the buttons to the breadboard. One pair of legs of the button extending towards the + rail of the breadboard and the other pair of legs extending towards the - rail of the breadboard.

1.2 Resistors

One resistor per button

Connect a resistor (1k Ohm) each per button. Connect one leg of the resistors towards the blue line of the breadboard in extension of a leg of a button. Connect the other leg of every resistor to the - side of the power rail. (See above picture)

1.3 Buzzer

Attach the buzzer in the 5th mounting hole next to the last button (hole 29). One side of the buzzer attached towards the + rail of the breadboard and the other to the - side.

1.4 Jumper cables into the arduino

1 / 3 • How the finished breadboard looks

Attach a jumper cable to a button each. Connect it to the other leg of the button on towards the + side of the breadboard. Attach 2 jumper cables to the buzzer: one towards the + side and one towards the -, both in row 29. Connect the last jumper cable to the - side of the power rail like the resistors.

Connect the jumper cables of the buttons to the pins 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 from left to right as shown in the picture with the arduino and connect the jumper cable of the buzzer pointing towards the + and - both to pin 11 and 13 respectively.

Lastly, connect the jumper cable from the - power rail to GND so you have a closed electric circuit and your hardware is good to go :)

2. The Code

2.1 Basics

You start off with including the pitches.h tab, which you can download here. The pitches.h tab contains over 8 octaves of notes, which will give you enough variety to play around with. After that comes naming what button is called and is using which pin and the void setup. The void loop contains the code which note will be played when you press the button. The note will play for as long as you press the button. For the melody you can see how the sequence of the notes work, no explanations needed except for if you want a pause/silence in your song, the 'note' is 0, while the noteduration is not. You'll have include in the code how long the pause is the same way as a normal note.

2.2 Personalizing

You can change the tone of a button in the loop to whatever note you'd like. This way you can change the note intervals between them and change it to your liking. Don't forget to also change the code at the beginning if you change the name of the button accordingly to the note.

The song in the code is Unravel, but you can put a song of your own in it by changing the notes. You can look up the notes using piano sheets and change the code along with the note durations accordingly to the song you want the arduino to play. The duration of a note in this code is 600ms/ the note duration you used as stated in the code in the void loop. You can change the speed of the song by changing this. E.g. change 600 to 1000 to make it play slower or to 500 to make it play faster.

3. Ready and play!

You've got the hardware, you've got the code and adjusted it to your liking, all what's left is to play!

Code

#include "pitches.h"
#define ACTIVATED LOW


const int PIEZO = 11;
const int LED = 13;

int buttonSong = 8;
const int BUTTON_C = 6;
const int BUTTON_AS = 4;
const int BUTTON_A = 3;
const int BUTTON_G = 2;


void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(9600);
  pinMode(LED, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(BUTTON_C, INPUT);
  digitalWrite(BUTTON_C,HIGH);
  pinMode(BUTTON_AS, INPUT);
  digitalWrite(BUTTON_AS,HIGH);
  pinMode(BUTTON_A, INPUT);
  digitalWrite(BUTTON_A,HIGH);
  pinMode(BUTTON_G, INPUT);
  digitalWrite(BUTTON_G,HIGH);
  pinMode (buttonSong, INPUT);
  digitalWrite(buttonSong, HIGH);
  
  digitalWrite(LED,LOW);
}


// notes in the melody:
int melody[] = {
NOTE_AS4, NOTE_C5, NOTE_AS4, NOTE_A4, NOTE_G4,  NOTE_C5, NOTE_AS4, NOTE_A4, NOTE_G4, NOTE_G4, NOTE_F4, 0, 0,
NOTE_DS4, NOTE_DS4, NOTE_F4, NOTE_D4, 0, 0, 0, NOTE_D4, NOTE_D4, NOTE_D4, NOTE_D4, NOTE_D5, NOTE_D5,
NOTE_G3, NOTE_AS3, NOTE_C4, NOTE_G3, NOTE_G3, NOTE_AS3, NOTE_AS4, NOTE_A4, NOTE_A4, NOTE_A4, NOTE_AS4, NOTE_AS4, 
NOTE_G3, NOTE_AS3, NOTE_C4, NOTE_G3, NOTE_G3, NOTE_AS3,


NOTE_AS4, NOTE_C5, NOTE_AS4, NOTE_A4, NOTE_G4,  NOTE_C5, NOTE_AS4, NOTE_A4, NOTE_G4, NOTE_G4, NOTE_F4, 0, 0,
NOTE_DS4, NOTE_DS4, NOTE_F4, NOTE_D4, NOTE_G3, NOTE_AS3, NOTE_C4, NOTE_F3, NOTE_AS3, NOTE_A3, NOTE_F3, 
NOTE_D4, NOTE_D4, NOTE_D4, NOTE_D5, NOTE_D5,
NOTE_G3, NOTE_AS3, NOTE_C4, NOTE_F3, NOTE_AS3, NOTE_G3, NOTE_AS4, NOTE_A4, NOTE_A4, NOTE_A4, NOTE_AS4, NOTE_AS4, 




};

// note durations: 4 = quarter note, 8 = eighth note, etc.:
int noteDurations[] = {
  
4.5, 2.25, 2.25, 4.5, 2.25, 2.25, 2.25, 2.25, 2.25, 4.5, 3, 9, 4.5, 
4.5, 2.25, 4.5, 2.25, 1.125, 2.25, 4.5, 4.5, 2.25, 4.5, 2.25, 4.5, 2.25, 
4.5, 4.5, 4.5, 2.25, 4.5, 4.5, 4.5, 2.25, 4.5, 2.25, 4.5, 2, 
4.5, 4.5, 4.5, 2.25, 4.5, 4.5,

4.5, 2.25, 2.25, 4.5, 2.25, 2.25, 2.25, 2.25, 2.25, 4.5, 3, 9, 4.5, 
4.5, 2.25, 4.5, 4.5, 4.5, 4.5, 4.5, 4.5, 3, 3, 4.5, 
2.25, 4.5, 2.25, 4.5, 2.25, 
4.5, 4.5, 4.5, 4.5, 2.25, 4.5, 4.5, 2.25, 4.5, 2.25, 4.5, 2.25, 






} ;


void loop()
{
   while(digitalRead(BUTTON_C) == ACTIVATED)
  {
    tone(PIEZO,NOTE_C5);
    digitalWrite(LED,HIGH);
  }
  while(digitalRead(BUTTON_AS) == ACTIVATED)
  {
    tone(PIEZO,NOTE_AS4);
    digitalWrite(LED,HIGH);
  }

  while(digitalRead(BUTTON_A) == ACTIVATED)
  {
    tone(PIEZO,NOTE_A4);
    digitalWrite(LED,HIGH);
  }
  
  while(digitalRead(BUTTON_G) == ACTIVATED)
  {
    tone(PIEZO,NOTE_G4);
    digitalWrite(LED,HIGH);
  }
  
  if(digitalRead(buttonSong) == ACTIVATED) {
    for (int thisNote=0; thisNote <85; thisNote++) {
      int noteDuration = 600 / noteDurations[thisNote];
      tone(11, melody[thisNote], noteDuration);
      int pauseBetweenNotes = noteDuration * 1.50;
      delay(pauseBetweenNotes);
      noTone(11);
    }
    
  }

  noTone(PIEZO);
  digitalWrite(LED,LOW);

}

#define NOTE_B0  31
#define NOTE_C1  33
#define NOTE_CS1 35
#define NOTE_D1  37
#define NOTE_DS1 39
#define NOTE_E1  41
#define NOTE_F1  44
#define NOTE_FS1 46
#define NOTE_G1  49
#define NOTE_GS1 52
#define NOTE_A1  55
#define NOTE_AS1 58
#define NOTE_B1  62
#define NOTE_C2  65
#define NOTE_CS2 69
#define NOTE_D2  73
#define NOTE_DS2 78
#define NOTE_E2  82
#define NOTE_F2  87
#define NOTE_FS2 93
#define NOTE_G2  98
#define NOTE_GS2 104
#define NOTE_A2  110
#define NOTE_AS2 117
#define NOTE_B2  123
#define NOTE_C3  131
#define NOTE_CS3 139
#define NOTE_D3  147
#define NOTE_DS3 156
#define NOTE_E3  165
#define NOTE_F3  175
#define NOTE_FS3 185
#define NOTE_G3  196
#define NOTE_GS3 208
#define NOTE_A3  220
#define NOTE_AS3 233
#define NOTE_B3  247
#define NOTE_C4  262
#define NOTE_CS4 277
#define NOTE_D4  294
#define NOTE_DS4 311
#define NOTE_E4  330
#define NOTE_F4  349
#define NOTE_FS4 370
#define NOTE_G4  392
#define NOTE_GS4 415
#define NOTE_A4  440
#define NOTE_AS4 466
#define NOTE_B4  494
#define NOTE_C5  523
#define NOTE_CS5 554
#define NOTE_D5  587
#define NOTE_DS5 622
#define NOTE_E5  659
#define NOTE_F5  698
#define NOTE_FS5 740
#define NOTE_G5  784
#define NOTE_GS5 831
#define NOTE_A5  880
#define NOTE_AS5 932
#define NOTE_B5  988
#define NOTE_C6  1047
#define NOTE_CS6 1109
#define NOTE_D6  1175
#define NOTE_DS6 1245
#define NOTE_E6  1319
#define NOTE_F6  1397
#define NOTE_FS6 1480
#define NOTE_G6  1568
#define NOTE_GS6 1661
#define NOTE_A6  1760
#define NOTE_AS6 1865
#define NOTE_B6  1976
#define NOTE_C7  2093
#define NOTE_CS7 2217
#define NOTE_D7  2349
#define NOTE_DS7 2489
#define NOTE_E7  2637
#define NOTE_F7  2794
#define NOTE_FS7 2960
#define NOTE_G7  3136
#define NOTE_GS7 3322
#define NOTE_A7  3520
#define NOTE_AS7 3729
#define NOTE_B7  3951
#define NOTE_C8  4186
#define NOTE_CS8 4435
#define NOTE_D8  4699
#define NOTE_DS8 4978

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ExeCuteLi

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Unravel Preset Piano Easy Arduino (Even a Ghoul Can Make It)

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Introduction

1. Setting up the hardware

2. The Code

3. Ready and play!

Schematics

Circuit Diagram

Code

Arduino_Piano_UNRAVEL

pitches.h

Credits

ExeCuteLi

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Unravel Preset Piano Easy Arduino (Even a Ghoul Can Make It)

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Software apps and online services

Story

Introduction

1. Setting up the hardware

2. The Code

3. Ready and play!

Schematics

Circuit Diagram

Code

Arduino_Piano_UNRAVEL

pitches.h

Credits

ExeCuteLi

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