{"id":9966,"date":"2014-06-05T11:56:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T11:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2014-06-05T11:56:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T11:56:11","slug":"a-completely-new-musical-instrument-powered-by-a-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9966","title":{"rendered":"A completely new musical instrument powered by a #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.squarespace.com\/static\/502aaa24c4aab556e90782ef\/t\/5370fe0ae4b0b7aea3d44551\/1399914004779\/Joytone%20with%20lights.png?resize=560%2C374\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just seen this over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/joytone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi Foundation&#8217;s blog<\/a> and I just\u00a0<em>had<\/em> to share it with you just in case you&#8217;re not following them (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">which you should<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>David Sharples from the University of Pennsylvania needed a subject for his senior design project on his BSE degree. So, he decided he would build a musical instrument with a Raspberry Pi. The end result is the Joytone &#8211; a large pad of joysticks that play different sounds at different pitches. It&#8217;s truly an astounding project that is a thing of beauty. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/joytone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more on the Foundation&#8217;s blog<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/davesharpl.es\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">read the full account of the build over on David&#8217;s blog<\/a>. There&#8217;s a video embedded below which gives you a feel for what the instrument can do.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ryzZtmqFAZM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just seen this over on the Raspberry Pi Foundation&#8217;s blog and I just\u00a0had to share it with you just in case you&#8217;re not following them (which you should!) 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