Published on 20 May 2022. Written by Naveen Lakkundi
Ever imagined playing hip-hop beats as desired at just the motion of your hands in the air. Well, here we propose a raspberry pi based project that does just this. Our proposed system uses raspberry pi along with ultrasonic sensors in order to check user hand position and plays beats accordingly to allow making hip-hop beats as desired.
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The proposed system uses ultrasonic sensors attached to raspberry pi in order to detect user hand positions. Based on the input received the user may change different beats or add effects in between. We use multiple ultrasonic sensors to allow for a variety of sound effects. Our system uses a speaker in order to play those beats.
We here use the raspberry pi board in order to get fast processing and no break constant music beats for good sound effects. Thus our proposed system puts forward an innovative beat maker and mixer system. We here use the raspberry pi board in order to get fast processing and no break constant music beats for good sound effects. Thus the system puts forward an innovative beat maker and mixer system.
Project Description:
Raspberry Pi 3 B: Raspberry Pi is a Microprocessor which has 40 pins with 27 GPIO pins, it has a 1 Giga Bytes of RAM and a SD card slot for the storage or the ROM,it can be used as a mini computer for low computing operations, it has a dual band LAN, faster Ethernet, Bluetooth, it also has USB and HDMI ports for connecting devices. This device can be used as a server which we are doing in this project.
Micro SD card: You will need a minimum of 8 gigabytes SD card for this project, this SD card is used as the ROM of the raspberry pi. Use 32 Gigabyte or 64 Gigabytes of
Display: You can use any kind of display for the project, like monitors, TV or any size display that fits your requirement to configure the Pi.
Power Supply: Raspberry Pi needs a power supply of 5V and 2A Micro USB type.
Mouse and keyboard: You will need this to control, monitor, and to configure the Pi.
Pi Camera: Use the Pi camera to capture still images, live streaming and for video recording.
Ultrasonic sensor: The Ultrasonic sensor use Ultrasonic sound waves to detect the distance beween the sensor and the obstacle.
Speakers:You can use any speakers for playing the drum beats.
Project Implementation:
Install the Raspbian OS into the SD card, and boot the Raspberry Pi.
Install Python IDE 3 in Raspberry Pi.
Install the Audio dependencies in order to use the speakers and produce a cool beats.
Connect your Display, keypad to the raspberry pi.
Write a Python program with which you can add beats of a drum, and when a hand is moved towards the ultrasonic sensor the respective beats stored should be played.
You can play multiple beats to form a sync and become a virtual drummer.
Project Brief:The Raspberry Pi when configured and all the required software has been installed then the Pi is ready to be used as a virtual beats player or an ultrasonic drum kit.
Software requirements:
Raspbian OS(Debian Linux): Raspbian operating systems are based on Linux, Raspberry pi are also compatible with Windows and IOS but prefer any Linux based OS
Python IDE 3: Python IDE 3 is compiler where you can write and compile python program.
Programing Language:
Linux (terminal commands)
Python
Kit required to develop Ultrasonic beats player:
