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Arduino Mega based Accordion midi controller using photointerruptors for bass lefthand section mapping and USB midi
keyboard for treble righthand section through USB host shield.

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AccordionMega_USB_Keyb
Arduino Mega based Accordion midi controller using photointerruptors for bass lefthand section mapping and USB midi
keyboard for treble righthand section through USB host shield.

Thanks to Dmitry Yegorenkov https://github.com/accordionmega/AccordionMega/wiki/AccordionMegastory I have packed

up courage to start my mission to convert an acoustic accordion Hohner Concerto III in my case into a digital midi controller.
The project took me the whole year 2014 in my free time to complete.

I have updated Dmitry's code to the new Arduino IDE and decided to combine with Yuuichi Akagawa's
https://github.com/YuuichiAkagawa/USBH_MIDI/blob/master/examples/USB_MIDI_converter/USB_MIDI_converter.ino so that
apart from being cost effective, it will have touch sensitivity on the righthand keyboard and less timeconsuming to build.
Using an offtheshelf midi keyboard, first Akai LPK25 and then Samson Graphite M32 to have more keys available, costs
approx 50 more but saves you 34 or 41 optointerrupters and their mapping! The bass section is relatively easier to map
since all bass combinations use only 24 pallets.

Bass side pallets with optointerruptors:

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Bass side bellows side showing counterpart optointerruptor circuits, ArduinoMega and USB host shield.

First working project using Akai LPK25 controller keyboard:

Final working project using Samson Graphite M32 USB controller keyboard:

https://github.com/JasonBugeja/AccordionMega_USB_Keyb 2/3
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First Youtube video showing first prototype warning! looks very primitive, made several people laugh :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmhv2PbcJrA

Myself playing using the final working project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATPYN1C5aeo

UPDATE:
Now my project has evolved into https://github.com/JasonBugeja/AccordionMegaBLE

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