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Arduino Robotic Glockenspiel (xylophone)
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Extra shields required are retired #6

Open Gad opened 7 years ago

Gad commented 7 years ago

Hello, Not really an issue with the code but couldn't find another way to reach out to you. The recommended shield (TransmogriShield and the Wifi one) are retired by Sparkfun. Am I correct in assuming that the only use of the Wifi shield is to read midi files from the SD card and the only use of the TransmogriShield is to be able to plus the Wifi shield on top of the Arduino Mega ? Thanks

bneedhamia commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the update on the retired TransmogriShield and WiFi shield. Yes, the wifi shield is an artifact from my original interest in driving the glockenspiel from the net; an SD card should work fine. And yes, the TransmogriShield is just so the SD card can be plugged into the Mega. If I recall, I needed the Mega for the Flash memory size as well as the pinout.

The next time I find time to take up this project again, I want to cost-reduce the thing and update it for boards that are still available; it's a bit of overkill right now. I also want to make the chime layout physically smaller; right now it's larger than a card table, which limits where I can use it. I'd really like to connect it up as a fancy, seasonal doorbell should be able to reduce the number of required pins by adding a shift-register (as many glockenspiel and multi-led projects do).

bneedhamia commented 7 years ago

By the way, I tried out the Sparkfun ESP8266 Thing Dev board for my Lunar Clock project. That board looks like a great replacement for the glockenspiel project, if I can keep the pin count down.