README.md

   1 Code Club - Mini Band Project
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   4 <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8338/8256708023_4a941566e9.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="photo (2)">
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   6 Make your own mini band!
   7 You and your friends can form your own finger-sized band and rock out using Raspberry Pi and Arduino.
   8 Learn how to build circuits with sensors and outputs and write a simple programme to control your instruments.
   9
  10 ## Instructions
  11
  12 The instructions are in the [writeup directory](https://github.com/NeilNjae/miniband/tree/master/writeup); you'll probably want the [instructions PDF](https://github.com/NeilNjae/miniband/tree/master/writeup/miniband.pdf). Code samples are in the [release directory](https://github.com/NeilNjae/miniband/tree/master/release).
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  14 ## You will make:
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  16 * A guitar
  17 * A set of drums
  18 * A pair of maracas
  19
  20 ## You will need:
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  22 * 1 x Raspberry Pi (plus monitor and power supply)
  23 * 1 x Arduino Uno boards (with USB cables)
  24 * 1 x strip potentiometer
  25 * 2 x tilt sensors
  26 * 4 x piezo buzzers (the type in greetings cards, easy to get from Maplin)
  27 * 7 × 10K resistors
  28 * Bread boards (1 per instrument)
  29 * Card
  30 * Sugru (or some other modelling material)
  31 * Electrical tape
  32 * Plastic drinking straw
  33 * Pencil
  34 * Coloured pens (optional)
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  36
  37 ## Software requirements:
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  39 * Scratch
  40 * IDE developer environment for Arduino
  41 * Py Serial library
  42
  43 ## Drum Kit
  44
  45 <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8074/8257699966_7585ca06e7.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Code Club Miniband"><
  46
  47 ## Guitar
  48
  49 <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8070/8257698984_8471e4cf57.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Code Club Miniband">
  50
  51 ## Maracas
  52
  53 <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8346/8257698652_4a99ee24b4.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Code Club Miniband">
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  55
  56 ## Useful links:
  57
  58 * [Pictures from the hack day where this was put together](http://bit.ly/codeclubminiband)
  59 * [Ardunio code](https://github.com/KatJoyWhite/miniband/tree/master/arduino)