NEW TUTORIAL – Wireless UNTZtrument Using BLE MIDI #MusicMonday
The UNTZtrument and HELLA UNTZtrument are both great options if you want an easily hackable open-source grid based MIDI controller. But what if you want to free yourself from USB cables during a live performance with your UNTZ?
In this guide, we will replace the Arduino Leonardo used in the standard UNTZtrument with either the Feather M0 Bluefruit LE, or the Feather 32u4 Bluefruit LE. This small hardware change will allow us send MIDI data wirelessly to computers and mobile devices using MIDI over Bluetooth LE.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, or even use Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for MakeCode, CircuitPython, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell with Google Hangouts On-Air is every Wednesday at 7:30pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
