Pico lo-fi sampler
A norns-inspired box on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 that grew into a lo-fi sampler and sequencer with live audio-through.
- Kind
- Sampler
- Status
- On the bench
- Year
- 2026
Started as a standalone synth with four engines, a small OLED, an encoder and two buttons. The next version records and plays samples.
Hardware
- Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350), Arduino IDE with the arduino-pico core
- SSD1306 OLED, rotary encoder, two buttons
- PCM5102A I2S DAC, microphone, audio jack out
Plan
- Samples stored in RAM or flash
- A step sequencer for the samples
- Live audio passing through the box