Digital Oscillator

Today’s Worksheet:

Task 1 – Make a noise using ton() and a Piezo Buzzer

For this task, we followed the instructions from the lab sheet above. We were to set up a circuit using a breadboard, Arduino (clone), 100 ohms resister, a Piezo Buzzer and some cables.

Once we have built the circuit we needed to code the Arduino to allow a sound to be created as an output.

The Code:

// A sketch to demonstrate the tone() Function

// Specifu digital pin on the arduino that the positive lead of piezo buzzer is attached.

const int piezo = 8;

void setup() {

} //close setup

void loop() {

//*Tone needs 2 arguments, but can take three.

1. pin#
2. frequency – this is in Hz cycle per second wich determins the pitch (the lower the number the lower the pitch, the higher the number the higher the pitch)
3. duration – how long the tone will be played/hold for.

*/

tone(piezoPin, 1000, 500);

}

Task 2 – Add a break in the loop

To create a break in the loop we added the following code after the tone() function.

delay(1000);
}

Task 3 – To create a beat

we do this by adding/changing to the code we used for task 1

tone(piezoPin, 450);
  delay(500);
  noTone(piezoPin);
  delay(500);