4 channel polyphonic tone generator (blue pill)

stevestrong Sat Nov 11, 2017 8:22 pm

Hi,

just for fun:

(the real sound is much better than on the video :mrgreen: )

It is exclusively timer based, so all 4 timers are reserved, configurable channel for each timer in part.
Accurate timing taken from systick.

Source available here: https://github.com/stevstrong/STM32-Tim … ree/master

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RogerClark Sat Nov 11, 2017 8:41 pm

Thanks Steve..

Can you post a link to the speakers… It looks like they are piezo , but are much bigger than I have.

BTW.

I had a crazy idea because I have Indian Myna birds, in the garden , which are a pest and are noisy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_myna

They mimic the sounds of other birds, so… I thought perhaps if I put BluePills in the trees, which play some simple tune, then perhaps rather than making the sounds of other birds, they may start makimg the sound of these tunes.

The Wallace and Grommit theme tune was going to be the song I use, e.g. just the first 8 notes

It would be a laugh if all the birds started to sing that at as one of their songs ;-)

stevestrong Sat Nov 11, 2017 8:48 pm

These are the speakers, they are magnetic, not piezo: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4PCS-Sp … 00464.html
Only that the sound of the camera is really miserable.
Yea, it would be fun to learn the birds to sing Mario themes

RogerClark Sat Nov 11, 2017 9:01 pm

Thanks for the link.

PS. did you use resistors in series with the speakers?

stevestrong Sat Nov 11, 2017 9:05 pm

nope, the chip is heating up a bit during playing, but it is still working. 8-)

indestructible…

RogerClark Sat Nov 11, 2017 10:18 pm

[stevestrong – Sat Nov 11, 2017 9:05 pm] –
nope, the chip is heating up a bit during playing, but it is still working.
indestructible…

LOL

ahull Sat Nov 11, 2017 11:52 pm

Nice… but if you want it a little louder, fire the output(s) though a small transistor

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stevestrong Sun Nov 12, 2017 2:09 pm

The sound level is OK, just that the camera mic could not reproduce it appropriately.

Anyway, I forgot to mention that the sw I posted needs this patch: https://github.com/stevstrong/Arduino_S … 77705acec9
This clears the IRQ flag before enabling the respective IRQ for a timer channel.

ChrisMicro Sun Nov 12, 2017 4:56 pm

Nice

Did you try this one.
It’s a five channel synth ;-)

stevestrong Mon Nov 13, 2017 8:31 am

No, I did not try it.
But does it have only 1 output?
How does it the 5 channel synth?

ChrisMicro Mon Nov 13, 2017 9:38 pm

>But does it have only 1 output?

Yes, the signals are “analog” like waveforms and are added internally.

It is done here ( line 277 ).

zoomx Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:28 am

Uhmmm….. streaming.h is missing.
sketch\TimerTone.h:3:23: fatal error: Streaming.h: No such file or directory

stevestrong Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:54 am

Sorry, I should have mention it, it is about ArduinoStreaming lib, you can get it from here
https://github.com/geneReeves/ArduinoSt … treaming.h
or here (first attachment) http://stm32duino.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2425

Funny, I don’t get any warning/error. Are you using the TonePlayer example from the example folder of the lib?
Did you unpack the files under Arduino/libraries ?
How old is your repo? You should update it, I always update it at least once weekly.

Maybe update the IDE to 1.8.5.

zoomx Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:14 am

Your streaming.h is a little newer than mine but, after updating core (I found it was very old, March 2017!), I got it compiled.
Anyway I updated streaming.h.

Now I have to search for the hardware!

Thanks!

Vassilis Tue Nov 14, 2017 6:18 pm

Well done Steve, I like it !