This project was just a fun little thing to try to combine my interests in music with my interests in electronics. The project uses a 40×2 character LCD, some pushbuttons, and a MIDI connector to create a four track step sequencer to generate drum beats on a MIDI instrument. The sequences are a fixed 32 […]
Ever since I had started my collegiate education, I had been interested in USB. It struck me as something that should be more accessible, as the antiquated serial and parallel ports have quickly gone the way of the dodo. USB offers a myriad of desirable features, including high communication speeds, plug-and-play capabilities, and a compact […]
This project is probably my first “real” project involving microcontrollers (I had not worked with microcontrollers prior to college). By “real”, all that I actually mean is that I took the time to solder it. Previously, my only microcontroller experience was breadboarding some blinking lights and or playing around with individual peripherals (UART, timer, etc.) […]