A low-cost USB to serial MIDI converter using an RP2040 and CircuitPython #RaspberryPi #CircuitPython @Raspberry_Pi @sandyjmacdonald
Sandy Macdonald posts about making a low-cost RP2040-based USB to serial MIDI converter. It uses a Pimoroni Tiny 2040 board, a SparkFun stereo jack breakout, and a couple of resistors.
Less than £10 worth of bits, and could be less than £7 if you used a basic stereo jack.
11 lines of CircuitPython code. Here’s an arpeggio from Orca being sent to the Make Noise 0-coast. It should work with both flavours of MIDI over 3.5mm stereo cables (swap the 3v3 and Tx pins around) or MIDI cables if you wire in a DIN connector.
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