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LEAP#368 Granular Synth

The “Granular Synth” idea harks back to an old Auduino project. I stumbled upon it again recently and decided it deserved a quick build in an Altoids tin ..

.. because granular synthesis is a basically how they make Altoids, right?

As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub

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If you can put up with 5 minutes of me fiddling around, here’s a taste of how it performs..


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LEAP#367 nRF24 Scanner

While trying to improve the range of nRF24L01+ some modules, and got distracted into building a channel scanner. The basic code is from the RF24 library examples, but this gets pimped up with a Nokia 5110 LCD display, multiple modes and a handy enclosure.

As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub

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LEAP#365 Driving a Nokia 5110 LCD with the Adafruit library

I’ve been having SPI conflicts with other libraries I’ve used for controlling the Nokia 5110 LCD, so time to pull out the big guns - the wonderful Adafruit library set which includes a PCD8544 module.

I started with a few tests of the hardware and software SPI modes.

As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub hero_image


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LEAP#364 Classic Nokia Ringtone

For obscure reasons, I wanted a version of the classic Nokia ringtone on an Arduino. So… I transcribed the score in Guitar Pro and tested it in a little sketch.

As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub hero_image

Here’s a quick demo:


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