Welcome to noizeInaBox, the home of noizy boxes

Current Projects list :

• Arduino Midi interface for TI Speak and Spell

• Speak and spell LFO PCB (schematics by casper electronics)

• Roland Mc-09 overdrive.

• TeensyBoy Arduinoboy interface with a Teensy 2.0

For more information please go to the blog : http://noizeinabox.blogspot.com/

noizeInaBox Arduino Midi interface for TI Speak and Spell

The noizeInaBox midi speak and spell midi interface is a Arduino shield which add midi capabilities to the S&S toy. When connected to the speak and spell and midi, it permit to create circuit bended sounds driven by midi notes.

I know that a similar interface already exist in kit and can be bought on a website, so why recreate the wheel ? simply because the commercially available kit is not "open" meaning the schematics and code is not provided.

The idea behind noizeInaBox midi speak and spell is to create a similar interface and keep the schematics and code "OPEN" to allow everybody to modify the way it works and keep possibility to add new feature for example create a pitch LFO on speak and spell midi controlled or add speak and spell midi controlled bend and loop.

I got this idea when i bought and use the "commercial" interface and i was quite frustrated because many feature could be added but no modification was possible.

Features: * Control S&S Speech synth with midi notes (bended style sounds). * use the shield as a midi shield. * Powerup the arduino with S&S batteries * add the possibility to midi control other feature (loop, bend, pitch,etc) * control Bank of sound using program changes

Future: * create a lookup table to map Speech synth addresss and midi notes. * create a teensy version of the shield to get smaller size and usb midi.

|Date | Version | Changes | |:----|:--------|:--------| | Feb 12 |0.98 | First release |

UPDATE Feb 2012 : The interface is working as expected. Code and schematics are available on this googlecode page.

for all details and development history go to http://noizeinabox.blogspot.com/

For the BOM please see here : MidiSSBOM

Internal connections to the Speak and Spell : SSconnections

Description of jumpers and pinout for the shield : MidiShieldpinout

TeensyBoy

noizeInaBox Teensyboy, The Arduinoboy with a Teensy 2.0

Jul 2014 : Rev 2.2 Changes : modified delay to send data to GB on MGB mode, should fix notes drop You can download the revision 2.2 here : https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0FLSOL-DH0VNW9KeTJKeFJWMVU&usp=drive_web

What is a TeensyBoy

TeensyBoy is just a ArduinoBoy code port for a Teensy uC. What is ArduinoBoy ? ArduinoBoy is a device using a Arduino (developped by Trash80) that enable MIDI capabilities for a old Nintendo GameBoy using special software like LSDJ, nanoloop, mGB.

More info here : TeensyBoy