How to Make a Fruit Piano on Seeeduino XIAO’s Q-Touch Function
Could you imagine you could even play the piano on the fruit? Seeeduino XIAO could help you! Simple steps, simple materials, everyone can make it. Play music with Seeeduino Xiao now! Go and build this project with us, and make yourself a musical king among your friends!
Working Principle
The build-in Q-Touch function on Seeeduino XIAO enables you to detect the minor capacity changes from GPIO, and you could assign each GPIO as a key and play a specific tone, then you are making GPIOs on Seeeduino XIAO as you musical instrument keyboard, and you are able to play your favorite songs!
Thing’s you need to prepare:
- Seeeduino XIAO x1
- Grove Shield for Seeeeduino XIAO x1
- Grove Speaker Plus / Grove Speaker x1
- Some Jumper Wires x7
- Some Fruits
Hardware Connection
Musical Notation
Code
#include "Adafruit_FreeTouch.h"
#define SPEAKER 2
Adafruit_FreeTouch qt_1 = Adafruit_FreeTouch(A0, OVERSAMPLE_4, RESISTOR_50K, FREQ_MODE_NONE);
Adafruit_FreeTouch qt_2 = Adafruit_FreeTouch(A1, OVERSAMPLE_4, RESISTOR_50K, FREQ_MODE_NONE);
Adafruit_FreeTouch qt_3 = Adafruit_FreeTouch(A6, OVERSAMPLE_4, RESISTOR_50K, FREQ_MODE_NONE);
Adafruit_FreeTouch qt_4 = Adafruit_FreeTouch(A7, OVERSAMPLE_4, RESISTOR_50K, FREQ_MODE_NONE);
Adafruit_FreeTouch qt_5 = Adafruit_FreeTouch(A8, OVERSAMPLE_4, RESISTOR_50K, FREQ_MODE_NONE);
Adafruit_FreeTouch qt_6 = Adafruit_FreeTouch(A9, OVERSAMPLE_4, RESISTOR_50K, FREQ_MODE_NONE);
Adafruit_FreeTouch qt_7 = Adafruit_FreeTouch(A10, OVERSAMPLE_4, RESISTOR_50K, FREQ_MODE_NONE);
int BassTab[] = {1911, 1702, 1516, 1431, 1275, 1136, 1012}; //bass 1~7
void setup() {
Serial.begin(115200);
pinMode(SPEAKER, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(SPEAKER, LOW);
// while (!Serial);
Serial.println("FreeTouch test");
// initialize digital pin LED_BUILTIN as an output.
pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);
if (! qt_1.begin())
Serial.println("Failed to begin qt");
if (! qt_2.begin())
Serial.println("Failed to begin qt");
if (! qt_3.begin())
Serial.println("Failed to begin qt");
if (! qt_4.begin())
Serial.println("Failed to begin qt");
if (! qt_5.begin())
Serial.println("Failed to begin qt");
if (! qt_6.begin())
Serial.println("Failed to begin qt");
if (! qt_7.begin())
Serial.println("Failed to begin qt");
}
int qt_Threshold = 850;
void loop() {
int qt1 = 0;
int qt2 = 0;
int qt3 = 0;
int qt4 = 0;
int qt5 = 0;
int qt6 = 0;
int qt7 = 0;
qt1 = qt_1.measure();
Serial.print(qt1);
Serial.print(",");
qt2 = qt_2.measure();
Serial.print(qt2);
Serial.print(",");
qt3 = qt_3.measure();
Serial.print(qt3);
Serial.print(",");
qt4 = qt_4.measure();
Serial.print(qt4);
Serial.print(",");
qt5 = qt_5.measure();
Serial.print(qt5);
Serial.println();
qt6 = qt_6.measure();
Serial.print(qt6);
Serial.println();
qt7 = qt_7.measure();
Serial.print(qt7);
Serial.println();
if (qt1 >= qt_Threshold) {
sound(1);
}
if (qt2 >= qt_Threshold) {
sound(2);
}
if (qt3 >= qt_Threshold) {
sound(3);
}
if (qt4 >= qt_Threshold) {
sound(4);
}
if (qt5 >= qt_Threshold) {
sound(5);
}
if (qt6 >= qt_Threshold) {
sound(6);
}
if (qt7 >= qt_Threshold) {
sound(7);
}
}
void sound(uint8_t note_index)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++)
{
digitalWrite(SPEAKER, HIGH);
delayMicroseconds(BassTab[note_index]);
digitalWrite(SPEAKER, LOW);
delayMicroseconds(BassTab[note_index]);
}
}Seeeduino XIAO
Seeeduino XIAO is the smallest member of the Seeeduino family. It carries the powerful ATSAMD21G18A-MU, which is a low-power microcontroller. This little board has good performance in processing and has low power consumption. Its tiny size makes it perfect to build wearable projects.
Grove Shield for Seeeduino XIAO
A plug-and-play Grove extension board for Seeeduino XIAO. It acts as a bridge for Seeeduino XIAO and Grove system. With the on-board battery management chip and battery bonding pad, you could easily power your Seeeduino XIAO with lithium battery and recharge it.
Grove – Speaker Plus
The Grove Speaker Plus includes a powerful amplifier driver board and a fancy speaker. You could replace the speaker with other speakers you like, as it adopts separated and replaceable speaker design. and with the help of the on-board potentiometer, you can easily adjust the output volume.
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