{"id":14395,"date":"2016-03-21T17:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14395"},"modified":"2016-03-21T13:53:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T12:53:30","slug":"play-the-imperial-march-from-star-wars-using-a-raspberry-pi-and-a-piezo-buzzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14395","title":{"rendered":"Play the Imperial March from Star Wars using a Raspberry Pi and a piezo buzzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.instructables.com\/F3A\/D9HN\/ILV8962X\/F3AD9HNILV8962X.MEDIUM.jpg?resize=560%2C315\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dum dum dum dum-de-dum dum-de-dum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anavi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leon Anavi<\/a>\u00a0has written an Instructable tutorial in which he takes a simple piezo buzzer, connects it up to\u00a0his Pi and then uses C\/wiringPi to play John Williams&#8217; Imperial March. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Playing-the-Imperial-March-From-Star-Wars-on-Raspb\/?ALLSTEPS\" target=\"_blank\">read the Instructable here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A tutorial\/demo video is available below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Playing the Imperial March from Star Wars on Raspberry Pi with Piezo Buzzer\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j8HnKM58QXk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dum dum dum dum-de-dum dum-de-dum. Leon Anavi\u00a0has written an Instructable tutorial in which he takes a simple piezo buzzer, connects it up to\u00a0his Pi and then uses C\/wiringPi to play John Williams&#8217; Imperial March. You can read the Instructable here.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14395\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[50,31,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","category-music","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Play the Imperial March from Star Wars using a Raspberry Pi and a piezo buzzer - 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=14395\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Play the Imperial March from Star Wars using a Raspberry Pi and a piezo buzzer - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dum dum dum dum-de-dum dum-de-dum. 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