Phil Atkin has been experimenting with bringing synthesizer software to the Raspberry Pi. Normally, this kind of equipment can cost £1000s but he is proving that the $35 Raspberry Pi is more than up to the job. Hackaday has just…
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Duelling pianos with Raspberry Pi play Street Fighter
This is an absolutely incredible project that mixes art and technology. Absolutely astonishing – read on! To celebrate the re-opening of the Maison de la Radio, France’s principal and historical radio building situated in the heart of Paris, a team developed…
Sonic Pi competition finalists announced
Late last year, a competition was launched to celebrate the release of Sonic Pi v2 on the Raspberry Pi. School children aged between 7-16 were invited to create musical compositions using the software. Dr Sam Aaron, who created Sonic Pi,…
Public piano uses Raspberry Pi to upload recordings
In Edmonton, Canada, a piano has been placed in their Underground train system so that anyone can play it. It’s the brainchild of David Rauch (who you can see in this video) and his OpenPianoYEG project. The special thing about this piano is…
Streaming Raspberry Pi radio player uses Google Sheet for scheduling
Here’s an interesting Instructable. It’s a 3D-printed radio unit with a Pi inside that reads from a Google Sheet online to determine when it should play. It’s a lovely case, but I expect you can find something pre-fabricated if you…
CBBC Newsround looks at Sonic Pi on the Raspberry Pi
Jenny from CBBC’s Newsround has been talking to Sam Aaron and some of the kids at a Sonic Pi Live & Coding event. You can watch the piece on the CBBC website.
PiPiano – a new Raspberry Pi add-on board
The PiPiano is a new add-on board for the Raspberry Pi which plugs into the GPIO header and gives you access to 13 buttons, 3 LEDs and a buzzer. It’s been designed to be used as a piano input device…
Raspberry Pi powered media player uses real cassettes!
Matt Brailsford has taken an old cassette player and stuffed it full of electronics with a Raspberry Pi at the core. The player reads NFC tags which are embedded inside the physical cassette tapes to choose Spotify playlists and there…
Wearable wrist radio with the Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice project. A wearable Raspberry Pi powered by a LIPO running pifm and a Python script to play music. Not much detail on the page itself about the build, but he does list the components so you should…
Sonic Pi – from humble beginnings to live coding on the Raspberry Pi
On 13th October, Dr Sam Aaron presented to the London Ruby Users Group about how Sonic Pi grew from a simple program producing beeps to being a live coding development environment that is installed by default on the Raspberry Pi.…