Making Music
Introduction
This page is not very well named. The idea is to make a basic musical instrument. It won't be that musical though - honestly, it's more of a noise machine. You press a button to play a tone and use a trimmer potentiometer to control the pitch of the tone.
You Will Need
- 1 x Piezo Buzzer
- 1 x 10K Trimmer Potentiometer
- 1 x Pushbutton
- 1 x 10 KOhm Resistor
- Jumper Wires
Making The Circuit
Programming The Arduino
const int trimPin = 0;
const int buzzerPin = 9;
const int buttonPin = 7;
void setup()
{
pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);
pinMode(buzzerPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
int buttonState = digitalRead(buttonPin);
if (buttonState==LOW)
{
int trimpos = analogRead(trimPin);
int f = map(trimpos, 0, 1023, 300, 1000);
tone(buzzerPin, f);
}
else
{
noTone(buzzerPin);
}
delay(10);
}
The only interesting statement in the code is the map() function. It allows us to map the range of values we receive from the trimpot into a range of frequencies we want to use. If you look again at the frequencies for the notes on the Playing A Tune page, you can swap the last 2 parameters of the function for the range of frequencies you want to use.