Connecting the Arduino to the button pad is not complex but there are quite a bit of wires between them… I already went through this here<\/a>. But I changed the pins I used in the first place. Just that I thought it would simplify soldering later on by keeping related pins together as much as possible. Not sure it did simplify though…<\/p>\n And PWM pins have been chosen precisely because you don’t want to use pins 4 and 13… More on this here<\/a>.<\/p>\n And last, resistors for the leds are 150\u03a9, 100\u03a9 and 100\u03a9 for red, green and blue pins.<\/p>\n The Adafruit’s Music Maker is based on the VS1053 chip which has 2 main functions : MP3\/WAV\/OGG… player and MIDI synth. It comes with a handy SD card connector from which it can read files to play. It comes in several flavors :<\/p>\n I chose the latter for two reasons : I liked the idea of having an onboard amp so it would simplifiy cabling and I thought I could stack it onto the Mega. But… as it is using by default PWM pins I desperately need for controlling the leds, I had to re-cable everything to new pins. In addition, I could not stack it anyway because I needed all the space on the Mega proto shield as you’ll see later on.<\/p>\n So, in the end, if I had to do it again, I would probably get the breakout board (smaller, much smaller) and the 3W amp<\/a> separately.<\/p>\n Here are the connections<\/p>\n Schematic\u00a0based on Adafruit’s Music Maker catalog product photo<\/p><\/div>\n Note the little voltage divider to feed GPIO 1 on the VS1052 : the VS is a 3.3V device so feeding directly with Arduino’s 5V may (will) damage it.<\/p>\n I choose a cheap 3-axis, I2C capable accellerometer breakout : the Sparkfun’s MMA8452 breakout board<\/a>.<\/p>\n It has some nice features and can make use of 2 interrupts… but I only have one available… So the other one won’t be connected for now. My first version of arduino code won’t make use of any of it for now. So it does not matter. I did connect one… just in case I have an idea on how I could use it !<\/p>\n Schematic\u00a0based on Sparkfun’s catalog product photo<\/p><\/div>\n The Sparkfun’s encoder<\/a> is a bit tricky because documentation is not quite clear but in the end… it works !<\/p>\n Note that it is a common anode RGB led. Setting pins D12, D13 or D14 to 0 means ON and 255 means OFF !<\/p>\n And last, resistors for the leds are 150\u03a9, 100\u03a9 and 100\u03a9 for red, green and blue pins. Also, pull-down resistor for the switch is 10k\u03a9<\/p>\n And now the very last thing : the illuminated buttons<\/a>.<\/p>\n Schematic based on Adafruit’s catalog product photo<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Have 3 of them. Quite straight forward… just don’t forget 150\u03a9 led resistors.<\/p>\n Ok… all parts have been connected one by one, here is the full picture !<\/p>\n All is here on GitHub :\u00a0https:\/\/github.com\/jsiobj\/NoeSoundBox\/<\/a><\/p>\n In next posts, I will sho how I did assemble all that stuff and build a nice enclosure for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Main parts Juke\u00a0Box showed here is based on the following main components : an Arduino Mega (here a clone from DF Robot) as the “brain” an Adafruit Music Maker for music & midi player a Sparkfun’s button par and associated … Continue reading ![\"components](\"http:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/components-photo.png\")
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Connecting the button pad<\/h1>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0Now, the Music Maker<\/h1>\n
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<\/a>\u00a0Then the accellerometer<\/h1>\n
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<\/a>Let’s continue with the encoder<\/h1>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nLet’s finish with the buttons<\/h1>\n
![\"button](\"http:\/\/interactingobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/button-rear-connection-300x225.png\")
<\/a>Wrap up<\/h1>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0And what about Arduino code<\/h1>\n
What’s next<\/h1>\n