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There is nothing like the musical abilities of Raspberry Pi. Even the smallest modules they offer, the Raspberry Pi Pico is capable of doing great things on the music front. Today we have a clever DIY project to share made by producer and developer Arnov Sharma. Using the latest Raspberry Pi Pico 2, he created a custom design Drum machine synth. We’re excited to be one step closer to our Raspberry Pi-powered dream squad.
The project essentially consists of a series of buttons programmed to play specific synthetic drum soundscapes. these My voice Files are stored on a microSD card using a second module – DFMiniPlayer. This board helps in supporting audio and provides the ability to play different types of files such as MP3 or WAV. In this case, it deals with the audio files used to create the drum synth.
According to Sharma, the idea was to try out the Pico 2 panel and DFMiniPlayer. The experience has come down to this nifty little drum synthesizer that has more involved in its creation than just playing an audio file with a button. To accomplish the project, Sharma went so far as to create a custom PCB to house all of the drum effect buttons that interface with the Pico 2.
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Like most of his other creations, this project is completely open source so you can recreate it yourself at home or at least take an in-depth look at how it works. As mentioned before, the main board is a Raspberry Pi Pico 2. It is connected to both a PCB and a custom DFMiniPlayer module. In addition to these components, you will need a set of switches and a 2 ohm speaker to output the sound.
The project code is fairly straightforward and was created by Sharma for the project only. It is written in C and is also open source so you can copy it directly or use it for inspiration to program your own custom combination. This code is available on the official project page shared with Hackster by Sharma.
If you want to take a closer look at this Raspberry Pi projectYou can check it out while you work YouTube Explore the build guide in more detail at Hakster. Be sure to follow Sharma for more awesome Raspberry Pi-powered creations as well as any future updates to this release.
