Fruit Piano

This project is a simple fruit piano that reads input from an MPR121 touch sensor and plays music through a DAC. In other words, we’ve turned fruits into a keyboard, allowing you to play music by simply touching them.

Required Components

In this project, we need the following components.

It’s definitely convenient to buy a whole kit, here’s the link:

Name

ITEMS IN THIS KIT

LINK

Elite Explorer Kit

300+

Elite Explorer Kit

You can also buy them separately from the links below.

COMPONENT INTRODUCTION

PURCHASE LINK

Arduino Uno R4 WiFi

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Breadboard

BUY

Jumper Wires

BUY

Resistor

BUY

MPR121

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Audio Module and Speaker

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Wiring

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Schematic

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Code

Note

  • You can open the file 02_fruit_piano.ino under the path of elite-explorer-kit-main\fun_project\02_fruit_piano directly.

  • Or copy this code into Arduino IDE.

Note

To install the library, use the Arduino Library Manager and search for “Adafruit MPR121” and install it.

How it works?

Here’s a step-by-step explanation of the code:

  1. Library and Object Initialization:

    Import the necessary libraries: Wire library (for I2C communication), Adafruit_MPR121 library (for driving the MPR121), analogWave library (for generating analog waveforms), and pitches.h (which defines the frequencies of notes). Create instances of Adafruit_MPR121 and analogWave objects. Define a notes array to store the note corresponding to each touch channel.

  2. setup():

    Initialize Serial communication and wait for it to start. Check and initialize the MPR121; if not found, print an error message on the serial monitor and halt execution. Initialize the analogWave object and set the initial sine wave frequency to 10Hz.

  3. loop():

    Read the currently touched channels of the MPR121. Iterate through all channels, check which one is touched, and play the corresponding note. Add a small delay between each iteration.

  4. Play Note playNote():

    The playNote function takes a note parameter and sets the DAC frequency to play the corresponding note. Delay for a period to play the note. Stop playing the note.