Ascend to Charge Part One: Notes to Hertz

Create a song by converting piano notes to hertz values that Code Speaker can interpret and play!

Code

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/*'Ascend to Charge', a popular song during baseball games C,E,G,A,E,G are the notes in order */ void setup(){ pinMode(10,OUTPUT); //Set the Speaker as an OUTPUT } void loop(){ tone(10,523); //C delay(150); //Play the note for 150 milliseconds tone(10,659); //E delay(150); tone(10,784); //G delay(150); tone(10,880); //A delay(300); //double delay on this note tone(10,659); //E delay(150); tone(10,784); //G delay(600); //quadruple delay on the last note noTone(10); delay(5000); //wait 5 seconds before replaying the song } // (c) 2018 Let's Start Coding. License: www.letsstartcoding.com/bsdlicense

Walkthrough Videos

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Challenges

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Play a different song on Code Speaker! You can use your purple card to convert common notes to hertz and then find the required notes with a Google search for the song you want to play!

Concepts

These are the new code concepts covered in this example program. To become a great coder, read through these concepts to learn new vocabulary.

New Concept: Real-world crossover with code

Code is often created to reflect something from the ‘real world’, just like this program. It’s very easy to look up the hertz value of a piano note and convert it to a tone command you can use to build songs on your Code Speaker. There are some things, like chords, that you aren’t able to play on your Code Speaker. But there are some things, like playing at extremely high speeds with 100% accuracy, that are much easier to do on Code Speaker than on a real piano!

Quiz

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1. True or False: You have to use a noTone() command between every note that plays on Code Speaker.

True
False