{"id":283,"date":"2008-09-13T02:34:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/?p=283"},"modified":"2008-09-13T02:34:07","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T06:34:07","slug":"283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2008\/09\/283\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I threw together the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.critterandguitari.com\/home\/store\/arduino-piano.php\">Critter and Guitari Arduino Pocket Piano<\/a> Arduino Shield.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tonight's quick hack by glacial23, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/glacial23\/2852777562\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3158\/2852777562_4e748bc701_m.jpg\" alt=\"Tonight's quick hack\" width=\"240\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSome quick thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Critter and Guitari&#8217;s instructions aren&#8217;t very good. Use <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2008\/05\/build_the_arduino_pocket.html\">Make&#8217;s.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Why no sockets, C&amp;G? I ended up soldering the multiplexers in sans sockets, but used one of my own for the DAC chip.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s kind of a pain (for me) to upload new programs &#8211; my only &#8220;shieldworthy&#8221; Arduino board is an NG &#8211; and thus I have to hit the reset button to upload a new program. As long as I have a little thin stick with me, I&#8217;ll be ok. For anyone just getting on board the Arduino train, you&#8217;ll probably be using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\/en\/Main\/ArduinoBoardDiecimila\">Diecimila<\/a> and won&#8217;t have this problem &#8211; it autoresets when you upload a program.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;FM Synthesizer&#8221; program is quite fun. It&#8217;s no DX7, but you can edit multiple parameters at once, unlike a DX7&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now to figure out an enclosure&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also, does anyone know of any programs for the Pocket Piano other than C&amp;G&#8217;s? A quick search didn&#8217;t turn up much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I threw together the Critter and Guitari Arduino Pocket Piano Arduino Shield. Some quick thoughts: Critter and Guitari&#8217;s instructions aren&#8217;t very good. Use Make&#8217;s. Why no sockets, C&amp;G? I ended up soldering the multiplexers in sans sockets, but used one of my own for the DAC chip. It&#8217;s kind&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2008\/09\/283\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}