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SPOKE: The RP2040 Touch Controller That Plays Music From Fruit

Cheap microcontrollers have quietly turned music-making into a hardware hobby. Boards built around the RP2040 now sit at the center of homemade synths, MIDI pads, and touch instruments that would have cost hundreds a decade ago. The SPOKE fits right into that wave: a CD-sized board covered in capacitive touch pads that plays a note the moment you brush a finger across it. What the SPOKE actually is The SPOKE looks like a 1990s indie album, cardboard sleeve art and all, but its 27 copper touch pads each wire to a GPIO pin on an onboard RP2040 chip. Plug it into a computer over USB-C and the default firmware registers as a standard MIDI controller. Head to spokeboard.com, grant your browser MIDI access, and every pad triggers a note. The site layers on audio visualisers, a Harmonic Table that maps 100 polygons to notes, a one-shot drum kit, and an Audio Playground for loading clips from Freesound.org or your own recordings. The technical bits worth knowing Because the firmware runs C
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