555 Piano Organ Project

Hello, Here is a project that my sophomores are working on the 555 Piano Organ Project. It's a simple electronic toy piano can be easily constructed using the popular 555 timer IC. The NE555 timer IC was designed by Hans Camenzind in 1971. It consists of two threshold triggers, an RS flip-flop, and an output buffer. The 555 provides an easy, reliable way to create rectangular waveforms of adjustable pulse width and frequency by using different external component values.

Loudspeaker and Sound

A tone is a sound which is produced by a regular vibration. So it has only one frequency even though intensity/amplitude can vary. A Loudspeaker is an electronic transducer which converts electric signals to pressure variations to make the sensation of sound. To make this diaphragm of the loudspeaker will vibrate according to the frequency and amplitude of electric signals. Audible frequency range of humans is from 20Hz to 20KHz, so we are going to generate frequencies in this range using 555 timer and feed it to the loudspeaker.