Engineers create something out of nothing, and no where is this more apparent than in the creation of customized computer hardware. To make a simple MIDI controller, you need knowledge of firmware … ...

It’d probably be unrealistic to expect a handheld computer powered by an Arduino Nano to do much more than that. It’s a tiny board with a 16 MHz ATmega328 microcontroller 32KB of flash memory ...

The Arduino Nano itself is the most basic and oldest of the group, and just like its many iterations, it's designed to work primarily with breadboards, making it a great tool for prototyping.