Music Synthesizer Project

Abstract Results/Conclusion
Engineering Design Process
My project is an eight-note musical synthesizer that I built with an
Arduino. The synthesizer can be programmed to play different musical
scales, and different songs can be played based on those scales.

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Imagine
This is a picture of the low-pass filter that I was
planning to use to amplify the sound. Unfortunately,
it did not work .

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Create

Test &
Improve
Evaluate
STEAM The code below is the code that I used for the musical synthesizer. The else-if loops
Future Steps & What we Learned
control the individual buttons, and the code at the top activated those pins to send
current to the circuit.
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Solution
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• This is my finished project for the synthesizer. The black
• component at the bottom is a piezospeaker. I designed
this so that there would be a lot of room on the left side,
so that a person could push the buttons and actually play
• the synthesizer.

Science: This project This is the schematic for my printed circuit board that
demonstrates an I am planning on making. It will make the synthesizer
understanding of more durable and permament.
electric circuits and
concepts of electricity,
such as voltage,
current and resistance. My project is mostly complete, but there are some things that I would
Engineering: This have liked to have added. The main thing that I would have like to have
project added is an amplifier so that the volume of the sound could be increased
Music: This project demonstrates or decreased. I built a low pass filter to do this, but it malfunctioned. The
demonstrates knowledge of other thing I would have liked to do is create an actual circuit board, so
knowledge of building electric that the circuit would be permanent, as opposed to being on a
musical notes , circuits and using breadboard. However, I am mostly satisfied with what I was able to
musical scales, a microcontroller achieve.
and songs. and computer
code to build a
working circuit.