Musical NES Controller Arduino Synthesizer

It is finished! The NESynth. Or NES controller synthesizer thing. I've been working on this off and on for almost 4 months now. Finally I got around to completing the actual build. Jammed inside the controller is an Arduino Pro Mini, some little batteries, a switch and a headphone jack.

Based on what buttons you press, it will play a range of about 100 different notes. Hold Select to switch through the 6 badass modes, or to edit the octave and note time. It pumps out a squarewave pattern, so it kinda sounds like a real NES!

The software was written by me, with a few bits from the internet hacked all together. Some inspiration and help from Joven at http://www.protodojo.com . Also used bits from http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/Freqout and http://little-scale.blogspot.com/2007/07/nes-controller-to-arduino.html

Check out http://secretprojects.ca for other dumb crap I do.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• nes
• controller
• nintendo
• arduino
• project
• synthesizer
• squarewave
• music
• audio
• diy
• retro
• 8bit
• 8-bit

[afatsantos]

hi! I'm from malaysia and i very interested in nintendo synth. where can i find this awesome stuff? i like to have it one!

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

this is NESawesome

[wasdt0m0ve]

i would totally buy that.

[btballa]

I'd gladly pay.. for you to make another.. with a few requests... Ill pay fror all the parts pluss an extra 50 -70 bucks in labor since you already know how to do it. please hit me up with some way to contact you

[redeck1985]

you're going to great things after d-day, lead us to fight against the terminators.

[redeck1985]

dude, you're my hero! I'll be posting this on my facebook. :P