{"id":10039,"date":"2014-06-13T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=10039"},"modified":"2014-06-13T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T08:14:00","slug":"the-nintendo-keytar-a-raspberrypi-8-bit-synthesiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10039","title":{"rendered":"The Nintendo Keytar &#8211; a #RaspberryPi 8-bit synthesiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thereminhero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/keytar_thumb2.jpg?resize=560%2C324\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereminhero.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Theremin Hero<\/a> took the following components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">NES<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Guitar Hero Controller<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Famicom Controller<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">NES controller<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Toy Keyboard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">3 Mini Arduinos<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Raspberry Pi<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">MaxM LEDs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">Midi IN\/OUT connections<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.05em;\">MidiNES \/ Chip Maestro<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and made a brand new musical instrument out of it. It looks like a fairly complex build, and full details will appear\u00a0soon on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thereminhero.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">his website<\/a>, but for now take a look at the video of him playing music from Game of Thrones below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wiZbzBw1ZLI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theremin Hero took the following components: NES Guitar Hero Controller Famicom Controller NES controller Toy Keyboard 3 Mini Arduinos Raspberry Pi MaxM LEDs Midi IN\/OUT connections MidiNES \/ Chip Maestro and made a brand new musical instrument out of it.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10039\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,31,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","category-music","category-wearable"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Nintendo Keytar - a #RaspberryPi 8-bit synthesiser - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10039\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Nintendo Keytar - a #RaspberryPi 8-bit synthesiser - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Theremin Hero took the following components: NES Guitar Hero Controller Famicom Controller NES controller Toy Keyboard 3 Mini Arduinos Raspberry Pi MaxM LEDs Midi IN\/OUT connections MidiNES \/ Chip Maestro and made a brand new musical instrument out of it.&hellip;Read more &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10039\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/recantha\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-06-13T08:14:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.thereminhero.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/keytar_thumb2.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Horne\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@recantha\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@recantha\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael Horne\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10039#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10039\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Horne\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/c27c4ef2ee1c18b130f1fcd5dcdbb263\"},\"headline\":\"The Nintendo Keytar &#8211; 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