The Foundation announced on Friday the launch of a competition for schools where they use Sonic Pi v2 to create original pieces of space-themed music. The deadline for entries is 13th October and the finalists will take part in the final…
Category: Music
Sonic Pi v2 for the Raspberry Pi is now out!
Dr Sam Aaron yesterday announced the official launch of version 2 of his brilliant music software Sonic Pi. I’ve played around with the beta version of the software before, and it’s a great update – you can now “live code”…
Sonic Pi: Live & Coding Summer School
Ben & Phil from Juneau Projects have written a guest post on the Foundation blog about the recent Cambridge-based summer school which used Sonic Pi to create a “live coding” concert, amongst other things! You can read the post here.…
Mini speaker from The Pi Hut – review
The Pi Hut have just launched their mini speaker, which has been modded from a standard model especially for the Pi. It comes in a really nice box (below). It comes with a 3.5mm audio cable to plug in to the…
Raspberry Pi Internet radio player
Spencer Organ has been experimenting with a PiTFT touch screen and programming a user interface with PyGame. He’s now documented the process he went through to create an Internet radio player and shared his code. You can read more about it…
Sonic Pi 2 performs – music on the Raspberry Pi
Foundation forum user rbn has posted about some music that he has arranged using Sonic Pi 2. There is an accompanying blog post listing the pieces of music he has coded and you can listen to the whole lot by…
New Sonic Pi competition for Raspberry Pi owners
The Foundation have just announced a forthcoming competition in which young people are invited to present their best compositions created on Sonic Pi v2. The competition, which will be opened in September, will allow winners to present their compositions to…
Joytone (#RaspberryPi musical instrument) inventors get interviewed
Dave Sharples and David Glanzman from the University of Pennsylvania have developed the Joytone – a musical instrument which uses a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino, together with 57 thumb sticks. It’s an amazing project which I’ve covered before. Now…
Sonic Pi: Live & Coding Summer School with the #RaspberryPi
This Summer School sounds brilliant. From Monday 28th July to Friday 1st August, Cambridge Junction will be running an event for kids aged between 10 and 14 that will get them into coding using the Raspberry Pi with Sonic Pi. At £25…
The Nintendo Keytar – a #RaspberryPi 8-bit synthesiser
Theremin Hero took the following components: NES Guitar Hero Controller Famicom Controller NES controller Toy Keyboard 3 Mini Arduinos Raspberry Pi MaxM LEDs Midi IN/OUT connections MidiNES / Chip Maestro and made a brand new musical instrument out of it.…