{"id":1,"date":"2018-04-10T14:20:33","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T14:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/gantspedal\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-04-19T14:21:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T14:21:04","slug":"firstupdate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/gantspedal\/2018\/04\/10\/firstupdate\/","title":{"rendered":"First Update (4\/13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">Friday Update #1<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">Project and Motivation<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>For my final project, I&#8217;m going to be building a reprogrammable guitar effects pedal. I will be closely following a Sparkfun tutorial to build the hardware. The pedal will use a teensy to control the effects, so that is where the project will get creative. There are a number of pre-made effects already online, but I want to build my own custom phaser or flanger. This will be the more time-intensive part of the process, but perhaps the more fulfilling.<\/p>\n<p>This project&#8217;s motivation comes from a love of guitar and guitar effects. My own pedal board already has a number of effects (chorus, overdrive, delay), but to complete my sound, I want to add some new effects. Because the pedal is reprogrammable, if I want a different effect for a different recording, I can take the time to make the new effect (albeit not on stage, that would be kind of time-consuming). I really enjoyed playing with Max for our last lab, so I&#8217;m excited to mess around with the effects and sounds that it can produce.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">Background Research<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Building a guitar pedal is pretty difficult to do from scratch. It involves complex circuitry and design, and a in-depth knowledge of sound and effects. Luckily, there is a tutorial online for building the pedal I want to build: https:\/\/learn.sparkfun.com\/tutorials\/proto-pedal-example-programmable-digital-pedal. Like I said, I will follow this tutorial to build the hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the tutorial are a number of pre-made effects:\u00a0https:\/\/github.com\/sparkfun\/Proto_Pedal\/tree\/master\/projects\/teensy-based\/sketches. Using these as a starting point, I will build and change them as best I can to create the effects I want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday Update #1 Project and Motivation For my final project, I&#8217;m going to be building a reprogrammable guitar effects pedal. I will be closely following a Sparkfun tutorial to build the hardware. The pedal will use a teensy to control the effects, so that is where the project will get creative. There are a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/gantspedal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/gantspedal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/gantspedal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/gantspedal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/gantspedal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/gantspedal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/gantspedal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/gantspedal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/gantspedal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/gantspedal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}