Digital-Piano-LED VS Digital-Piano-Visualization

Not as my main computer, but as my digital piano sidekick, a USB output from the piano goes to my Raspberry Pi which runs Pianoteq (makes the piano sound like a $100k piano). Optionally, the Pi lights up some addressable LEDs coinciding with keys.

https://github.com/youfou/pianoteq-pi & https://github.com/whyboris/Digital-Piano-LED

A nice "gateway drug" is an addressable (programmable) LED strip. Hook it up to a Raspberry Pi or Arduino and have at it! I bought cheap motion sensors and will be installing a strip along the inside of a staircase to light up when I approach it.

https://github.com/whyboris/Arduino-LED (see "stairs.ino")

Another project of mine is having the LEDs light up as I play piano:

https://github.com/whyboris/Digital-Piano-LED

Unsure where I'll go after I finish these projects, but LEDs are so much fun!

A fun tech-related project is hooking up an addressable LED strip to a digital piano and making the strip respond to your key presses on a Raspberry Pi.

My repository for this (code finished, just need to add photos and add a write up about how to use):

https://github.com/whyboris/Digital-Piano-LED

I added a feature that the left and middle pedal buttons navigate through sheet music (PDF left/right button). And I'm also running Pianoteq which makes any (even dinky) digital piano sound like a $100k grand piano (or any piano you pick for that matter) https://www.modartt.com/pianoteq

Update: I coded-up a full-screen visualization to display on the screen. My setup has a 55" screen right above the piano, so there's great potential to make a pretty show.

Still WIP, but easy to edit: https://github.com/whyboris/Digital-Piano-Visualization

I used Processing because of how easy it is to use and how performant it is for smooth animations.