ARDUINO: PIEZOELECTRIC BUZZER PLAYING JINGLE BELLS
1 - Introduction
- A buzzer is an electromechanical component that can be used to make noise or even play music.
- Inside the buzzer there is a coil of wire and a small magnet. When current flows through the coil it becomes magnetized and pulls towards the magnet creating a tiny "click". When the click is played thousands of times per second tones are created.
- The Arduino has a built-in command called tone() which clicks the buzzer at a certain frequency.
- Frequencies used in this exercise and their corresponding notes:
x (g for a lower octave) = 196 Hz
y (a for a lower octave) = 220 Hz
c = 261 Hz
d = 293 Hz
e = 329 Hz
f = 349 Hz
g = 392 Hz
a = 440 Hz
2 - Layout schematics
- The buzzer has two pins, one positive (marked by a "+" symbol) and the other negative.
- In this example the positive pin is connected to Arduino digital pin 9 (optionally through a resistor of 330 Ohms), and the negative pin is connected to GND.
3 - Running the Arduino sketch
- The code used in this Arduino sketch:
- Running the code over the circuit (the resistor of the previous schematics has been removed to obtain louder sound from the buzzer):
