{"id":16459,"date":"2017-02-24T22:28:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16459"},"modified":"2017-02-24T22:29:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:29:27","slug":"this-raspberry-pi-zero-piano-is-one-tough-musical-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16459","title":{"rendered":"This Raspberry Pi Zero piano is one tough musical instrument!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tough-piano.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16460\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tough-piano.jpg?resize=560%2C199&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tough-piano.jpg?w=1908&amp;ssl=1 1908w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tough-piano.jpg?resize=300%2C107&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tough-piano.jpg?resize=768%2C273&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tough-piano.jpg?resize=1024%2C364&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tough-piano.jpg?resize=560%2C199&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tough-piano.jpg?resize=260%2C92&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tough-piano.jpg?resize=160%2C57&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tough-piano.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/tough-piano.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian McEvoy wanted to create a musical instrument that could withstand a\u00a0<strong>lot<\/strong> of physical punishment and abuse. So, he\u00a0designed a piano called the Tough Pi-ano, which could be played using arcade buttons. Each octave of the piano has a Raspberry Pi Zero beneath it which are used to produce the tones. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24hourengineer.com\/search?q=piano\" target=\"_blank\">read a lot more about the project over on his blog<\/a>\u00a0and see a demo video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"24 Hour Engineer Presents the Tough Pi-ano\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/osa0Yo6ODDY?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>Brian McEvoy wanted to create a musical instrument that could withstand a\u00a0lot of physical punishment and abuse. 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Each octave of the piano has a Raspberry&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16459\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16460,"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":true,"_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],"tags":[148,243],"class_list":["post-16459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-making","category-music","tag-musical-instrument","tag-piano"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>This Raspberry Pi Zero piano is one tough musical instrument! - 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=16459\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Raspberry Pi Zero piano is one tough musical instrument! - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brian McEvoy wanted to create a musical instrument that could withstand a\u00a0lot of physical punishment and abuse. 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