Moolodeon - Arduino Midi Melodeon

And next up... I've also been following this one for a while and is another of my favourite projects out there. Lee O'Donnell aka Bassmaker has this great hack of a cheap Chinese import Melodeon that he's dropped an Arduino into along with buttons and a pressure sensor to make a fun little instrument.

Lee also has some excellent pictures showing off the design and the electronics. It's just a little bit of a shame that the source code isn't also posted. Here's some pictures of the construction:


I'm not going to comment more than this as Lee has done such a good job on his site, but here are the YouTube links of it in action.


Lee also has a cracking project explaining his SD Card Midi sample player that generates the fantastic sounds from this instrument. I'll probably blog on that separately later, but check it out!