A Tone Generator with LCD Display!

This is a tone selector with the ability to change the buzzer frequency by a potentiometer and to see the result on a 16×2 display.

This is a small tone selector with the ability to change the frequency by a potentiometer and to see the result on a 16×2 display. It also has an automatic testing mode at the beginning.

Please watch the video till the end (less than a minute) to see what it can do

The project is pretty straight forward:

Arduino reads the analog data from the potentiometer and the program transforms it into a frequency to be played by the buzzer (in a range of 20-2000 Hz). The program provides the thresholds on lower and on higher frequencies.

It starts with a test sequence that it sends to the buzzer a wave of notes and then the program listens to the potentiometer values.

The display shows the frequence played at the moment.

I used a trimmer to adjust the display contrast (at the beginning it usually doesn’t show anything because of the too high contrast, so it needs to be adjusted. 

The buzzer is a Elegoo passive buzzer connected using only 2 pins as a standard buzzer (so, any buzzer can be used as well).

The potentiometer is a 10Kohm linear and it works pretty well in this range, but I adjusted the scale on the program so to double it because of the original range too low (0-1024).

The arduino Sketch built-in library “Tone” has been used for the buzzer and the LiquidCrystal library for the 16×2 display.

It can be used as a base to learn synth music or to build a proper synth with other controls for changing the basic square wave and to add some loops like in a sequencer.

ARDUINO CODE:

#include <LiquidCrystal.h>

LiquidCrystal lcd(12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2);
int ccc = 1;
int sensorPin = A0;
int sensorValue = 0;
int freq = 0;
const int buzzer = 7;

void playTone(int freqq){
  lcd.clear();
  lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
  lcd.print("Freq");
  lcd.setCursor(0, 1);
  tone(buzzer, freqq);
  lcd.print(freqq);
}

void setup() {
  pinMode(buzzer, OUTPUT);
  lcd.begin(16, 2);
  lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
  lcd.print("Testing...");
  delay(1000);
  for (int freqq = 256; freqq <= 512; freqq++) {
    playTone(freqq);
    delay(10);
  }
  for (int freqq = 512; freqq >= 256; freqq--) {
    playTone(freqq);
    delay(10);
  }
  noTone(buzzer);
  lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
  lcd.clear();
  lcd.print("Ready in 3");
  delay(1000);
  lcd.clear();
  lcd.print("Ready in 2");
  delay(1000);
  lcd.clear();
  lcd.print("Ready in 1");
  delay(1000);
}

void loop() {
  sensorValue = analogRead(sensorPin);
  freq = ceil(sensorValue/5)*5*2;
  if (freq>2000) {
    freq = 2000;
  }
  if (freq<20) {
    freq = 20;
  }
  playTone(freq);
  delay(20);
}

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External links:

http://fritzing.org/projects/tone-selector-with-lcd

https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/cronenborg/a-tone-generator-with-lcd-display-15012c