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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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  • It Came From The Synth - Mystery Melody Medley 4

    IntroThis project in the Pi-Fest music technology Design Challenge aims to create a MIDI synthesizer based on a Raspberry Pi PICO. The previous blogs covered the electronic hardware and firmware design. (see links below) This blog covers mechanical d...
  • It Came From The Synth - Mystery Melody Medley 3

    IntroThis project in the Pi-Fest music technology Design Challenge aims to create a MIDI synthesizer based on a Raspberry Pi PICO. The previous blogs covered the electronic hardware design. (see links below) This blog covers the firmware. Mostly this...
  • It Came From The Synth - Mystery Melody Medley 2

    IntroThis project in the Pi-Fest music technology Design Challenge aims to create a MIDI synthesizer based on a Raspberry Pi PICO. The first blog covered the system block diagram and the circuit description. (see the link below)This blog co...
  • It Came From The Synth - Mystery Melody Medley 1

    IntroThis Pi-Fest music technology Design Challenge project attempts to add interest to the blogs by including interactive elements for the audience. This involves challenging you to identify the mystery music in each blog, created of course by ...
  • Songspire - BirdNET

    Hi all. Hope everyone is doing fine. The problem I always knew that, for my project, and just for a small proof of concept, data was going to be a problem.  I already did record a number of birds - mainly house sparrows - with my mobile phone...
  • Songspire - "Device" for recording sounds to know about the bird

    Hi everyone ! Hope you are all well. Today, I'm going to talk about the "device" that will record and infer the bird that's is singing. The objective is to, after hearing a bird, we press a button to record the song for about 10s and after that, th...
  • e-tabla part #1: Intro and Audio

    TablaThe tabla is an Indian percussion instrument. It is one of the main instruments in classical Indian music. It is composed of two drums, one made out of wood and the other has a metallic body:It is in nature a bit bulky and difficult to...
  • Pi-Fest - Making Some Noise with Raspberry Pi Pico (Blog1)

    Hi All, In this blog i write about my project concept and components required to make some noise with Raspberry Pi Pico. My Project title name would be "Entry Theme Player" , The idea is to play theme track/music when people enters. This can be used ...
  • Songspire - TinyML

    Hi everyone ! Hope you are all well. TinyML TinyML referes to Tiny Machine Learning.  It is a new and growing field of Machine Learning applied to resource-constrained hardware - such as an RP2040 like the PICO. When speaking of resource const...
  • Blog #3 Pi-Fest. Different ways to Code Pico.

    As there are many ways to code the pico in different languages like C, C++, Python, and so on. the following links are some hints or like a kickstart for the development. Using MicroPython: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ouzuI_ZPLs Using C and...