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Make: Lego and Arduino Projects
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Make: Lego and Arduino Projects

by John Baichtal, Matthew Beckler, Adam Wolf
November 2012
Beginner to intermediate
328 pages
9h 54m
English
Make: Community
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Chapter 8. Project: Keytar

IN THIS CHAPTER

Parts List

Assembly Instructions

Program the Keytar

Play Some Music!

The Next Chapter

Got Lego and a Bricktronics Shield? Start a band, man!

Figure 8-1. Got Lego and a Bricktronics Shield? Start a band, man!

For our next project we’re going to explore the realm of electronic music by building a working guitar-shaped Lego synthesizer! We call it a Keytar, because you mainly play it by pressing buttons. The name may be a stretch, but the project is fun to play with nonetheless!

This project creates crazy electronic music similar to the sounds generated by an Atari Punk Console, a classic electronic instrument of the earliest days of DIY electronic music (see the Atari ...

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