{"id":156,"date":"2025-11-10T14:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2025-11-30T14:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:17:45","slug":"building-an-electronic-floor-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Building an electronic floor &#8220;piano&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m planning on building a foot-controlled musical instrument. First, I&#8217;ll need some floor switches like these: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Floor-Switches-Mats\/\">https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Floor-Switches-Mats\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll be using some sort of microcontroller or microcomputer, like A Raspberry Pi or a Micro:bit, but I haven&#8217;t made that selection yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It might be something more like this: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Build-an-Easy-Floor-Piano\/\">https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Build-an-Easy-Floor-Piano\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I might use this for capacitive sensing to make it one wire per sensor&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.browndoggadgets.com\/Guide\/Capacitive+Touch+v1\/239\">https:\/\/learn.browndoggadgets.com\/Guide\/Capacitive+Touch+v1\/239<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m planning on building a foot-controlled musical instrument. First, I&#8217;ll need some floor switches like these: https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Floor-Switches-Mats\/ I&#8217;ll be using some sort of microcontroller or microcomputer, like A Raspberry Pi or a Micro:bit, but I haven&#8217;t made that selection yet. It might be something more like this: https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Build-an-Easy-Floor-Piano\/ I might use this for capacitive sensing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringharmony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}