ESP OPL

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Skills Arduino, Programming, Python
Status Production
Niche Music
Purpose Fun
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Tool category Electronics

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Intro

I still have a OPL2 board laying around that I wasn't using for anything at all. Dreamer came up with the idea of using it as a theme song player for when members enter the space. Of course, it has to be IoT.

OPL2

The OPL2 is a FM-synthesizer created by Yamaha, and was widely used in a lot of sound cards and several arcade games. It has 9 channels, or 6 channels when you are using the 5 percussion instruments. The chip has a characteristic sound due to how it produces the waveform.

For more information on the chip, check out the Wikipedia article.

Using

  • ESP8266 (Wemos D1 mini)
  • OPL2 Audio Board

To-do

  • Replace the LM386 (op-amp) with a new one as the current one seems to be broken. New ones ordered from France
  • Perhaps place everything on a PCB?
  • Look into adding a cap between VCC and GND to get rid of some hum
  • Write a UDP protocol for directly interfacing with the registers of the synth (So it can actually play DRO)

Code (git)

SOON.