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Raul Portales
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Raul Portales is a software engineer who has had a love for computers, electronics, and gadgets in general for as long as he remembers. He jumped into Android as soon as it was released. Raul has worked on social networks, education, healthcare, and even founded a gaming studio and a consultancy company. Specializing in mobile and UX, he speaks frequently at conferences and meetups. Raul's love for electronics reignited when Google announced Android Things. He started tinkering with it with the first Developer Preview, which lead to adding the IoT category on his Google Developer expert profile.
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Piezo buzzer

Let's make some noise. The buzzer also has its own driver. We can open it using the RainbowHat.openPiezo() method and it returns an object of type Speaker.

The Speaker class has two methods: play, which receives the frequency to play, and stop, which -unsurprisingly- makes the speaker stop.

To follow up from the previous section, let's build a three-tone piano where the buttons A, B, and C will play the frequencies of 1,000 Hz, 3,000 Hz, and 5,000 Hz, respectively. The buzzer will start sounding when the button is pressed and stop when the button is released.

For this example, we'll use button drivers for simplicity. The initialization and cleanup for PianoActivity looks like this:

class PianoActivity : Activity() {

private lateinit var buttonA: ButtonInputDriver
private lateinit var buttonB: ButtonInputDriver
private lateinit var buttonC:...
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Raul Portales is a software engineer who has had a love for computers, electronics, and gadgets in general for as long as he remembers. He jumped into Android as soon as it was released. Raul has worked on social networks, education, healthcare, and even founded a gaming studio and a consultancy company. Specializing in mobile and UX, he speaks frequently at conferences and meetups. Raul's love for electronics reignited when Google announced Android Things. He started tinkering with it with the first Developer Preview, which lead to adding the IoT category on his Google Developer expert profile.
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