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Make Some Noise with the Raspberry Pi Pico in the Pi-Fest Design Challenge

Kit applications have now closed, but the lights have not. You can still enter for a chance in our Pi-Fest Livestream spotlight and Tour Poster by using the Raspberry Pi Pico in a musical or audio project.

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Pi-Fest Music Tech Challenge - Awesome Prizes

dougw

I received 4 large boxes from element14 yesterday - two of them contained prizes from the Pi-Fest Music Tech Challenge, so of course I had to post a blog about what was in the boxes: community.element14.com/.../Pi_2D00_Fest_5F00_ShureS...
- 26 Oct 2022
Audio Encryption Project Blog 5: Final Results

juno

Final Goals So far we have tested and verified that all of our individual pieces of code work. Now it’s time to integrate them and debug any problems. Let’s start with our Pico named Bob. Bob reads audio from the mic, encrypts i...
- 10 Aug 2022
Audio Encryption Project Blog 4: Encryption and Decryption

juno

Tiny Jambu Encryption and Decryption The Tiny Jambu algorithm is a lightweight cryptographic algorithm written in C by Hongjun Wu and Tao Huang and is available here. We started by testing the encryption and decryption functions from the Tiny Ja...
- 10 Aug 2022
Audio Encryption Project Blog 3: Interfacing Modules

juno

Microphone and Speaker Modules Our microphone and audio decoder use the i2s protocol, a protocol for sending and receiving audio. Below is the i2s timing diagram. Figure: i2s timing diagram Basically the code should set the ws, then send a bit of da...
- 9 Aug 2022
e-tabla part #5: Final Thoughts

arjuna_dev

Final ThoughtsIt was a nice project and I enjoyed experimenting with the pi pico. It has proven to be a very versatile MCu of very low cost. It particularly stands out because of its 2 cores, nice form factor, the PIO state machines and large flash m...
- 9 Aug 2022
Pi-Fest A Project(s) The oh good lord did I really start this project, I am going to finish it! [Blog 5]

christophesky

The parts - so far. Lets quickly touch on the "design process", it is somewhat akin to the walk and build or design on some paper you had on your desk, more than the lets just play it by ear and see how it goes, but by no means any feat ...
- 9 Aug 2022
Pi-Fest A Project(s) The Sound Reative Desk Piece. [3D Parts] [Blog 4]

christophesky

Overview from the back, assuming your jumpers are reasonably rigid with the 7 of them in two loops connected to the Pico Pi, they double up as part of the back of the stand! Magic Design files (Fusion 360): community.element14.com/.../picopi_2D0...
- 9 Aug 2022
e-tabla part #4: First Working Prototype

arjuna_dev

Hi, all! This time I've been working on putting it all together and making it work. There is the audio part, the touch sensitive ink part and building of the drum.I used white glue for the faux leather and a mix of Liquid Tape and powdered g...
- 9 Aug 2022
Pi-Fest A Project(s) The Monomome like. [3D Parts] [Blog 3]

christophesky

Overview Design files: I have zipped the Matrix button pannel v3.f3d, which is the Fusion 360 design archive file. This has my sketch, design, and all details which you can bend and use to your hearts content. 3D printed, it is a near perfect fit ...
- 9 Aug 2022
Pi-Fest A Project(s) in Progress and a user fail. [BLOG 1]

christophesky

Mea Culpa My post it note has the challenge end as the 29th July. This is wrong I have found out this morning. It did in fact close on the 14th July. This is 100% my own error, my apologies to the E14 team on this and the other entrants. The Project(...
- 9 Aug 2022