PITCH BEND LASER CONTROLLER

The purpose is controlling a midi parameter with a laser sensor measuring a distance.
Here we choose to control the PITCH BEND.

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How to use it

• Turn on the pitch bend controller.
• If you want to change the measured distance range :
  • Press once the midi card D2 button.
  • Turn the potentiometer to change the range.
  • Press again the midi card D2 button.

Architecture

• ST-Microelectronics Nucleo F411
• VL6180x Nucleo Shield
• Sparkfun MIDI Shield
• Adafruit PowerBoost 500 Shield
• Battery
• Arduino Connectors

Assembly Instructions

Flashing the Nucleo F411

LINUX :

1. Download, unzip and execute the install script : install_enib.sh.zip
2. In a terminal :

WINDOWS :

1. get the st link programmer
2. File –> open File template.hex ( inside WORKSPACE_F411_MIDI_PITCH\stm32f411_base )
3. Target –> Connect
4. Target –> Program ( and Start)

Project Sources

WORKSPACE_F411_MIDI_PITCH

If you want to modify the sources ( to change the midi controlled parameter for example ) :

All the needed tools ( for linux) can be downloaded with the installation script : cf install.html

Then for debugging : cf tuto_eclipse

Another interesting tool for debugging nucleo is SW4STM32 ( based on eclipse as well)