Midterm Project: Piano Write-Up

As I mentioned last week, Jorge and I wanted to connect our micro-controller that would work as a piano. We would use the p5js library in order to get the notes of the piano to come out for each individual switch. However we came across many roadblocks along the way.

Our first major roadblock was that there was something wrong with both of our micro-controllers. When we were trying to upload the aREST code onto our boards but we were both getting errors on BOTH of our boards. When would check our serial monitors, the compiler was just outputting random letters. It would output things such a “cw$ ^42&*&”.

We didn’t think anything was wrong with the board since the code was uploading fine onto our boards. So we