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    Build a Pi Pico electronic piano

    Mar 04, 2024 4 minutes

    YOU’LL NEED

    • Pi Pico or Pico W
    • A buzzer
    • 15x M2M jumper wires
    • 7x push buttons
    • Large breadboard
    • Blu Tack, modelling clay, double-sided tape
    • Code: tinyurl.com/ APC530piano

    As I write this, Christmas is happening and it’s got me thinking of my childhood. My mother bought me a small piezo-speaker piano in the hope that I would learn to play. That never happened, but I did learn to take it apart and see how it worked, and now we can do that using the Raspberry Pi Pico.

    In this tutorial, we are going to use a Raspberry Pi Pico or Pico W running MicroPython to create a Pi-ano. We’ll use the Solfège syllables, a music education method used in schools to

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