sarahwalters/piano-poe

Piano-playing robot for Principles of Engineering, Olin College, Fall 2014

piano-poe

Sending midi file contents to Arduino:

• Upload playNotev4.ino to Arduino (see below); take note of the serial port to which the Arduino is connected
• Ensure that you have python-midi installed (see below) OR set midiOutput to testMidiOutput instead of reading from midi in sendCommandv3.py -> sendMidiOutput
• Start a Python/ipython process (you may need sudo permissions to access the serial port) then run sendCommandv3.py -> serialWrapper()

Installing python-midi:

• git clone https://github.com/vishnubob/python-midi/ into your local piano-poe repo
• sudo apt-get install swig
• sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev
• cd to python-midi
• sudo python setup.py install

Compiling playNotev2.ino:

QueueList library:

• Download Queuelist Library from http://playground.arduino.cc/Code/QueueList
• Save files in arduino/libraries/QueueList - that is, /usr/share/arduino/libraries
• After restarting your Arduino environment, be sure you can #include <QueueList.h>

Note library:

• Pull the Note folder from this git repo
• Save files in the Note folder from this repo into arduino/libraries/Note (that is, /usr/share/arduino/libraries)
• After restarting your Arduino environment, be sure you can #include <Note.h>

Installing OpenCV:

• Follow the instructions on this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenCV

Installing Wand (for pdfPng):

• sudo apt-get install python-wand