Coding a MIDI Keyboard from scratch

Justin Luo
John Whitley’s Portfolio
1 min readApr 29, 2020

As a keyboard enthusiast, I’ve became very interested in how MIDI keyboard are actually coded up, and thought it would be the best for me to create one from scratch (at least code-wise)

Introduction

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Problem

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Research/Inspiration

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Brainstorming

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Prototypes

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Testing and Feedback

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Reflection

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Justin Luo
John Whitley’s Portfolio

I’m an a senior at Dartmouth College with interests in technology and product design.