Audio Board Course
Learn to use audio boards to play music or sound effects. Dive into the how to program and interface popular breakout boards and shields with microcontroller development boards.
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What will I learn?
- How to select an appropriate audio board for your application
- Using a full featured audio shield to mix sounds
- Programming the inexpensive DFPlayer MP3 player
- The DFRobot audio player code library
Prerequisites
- This course assumes you have a solid understanding on the Arduino platform and understand topics like libraries, classes and functions. If you have finished the Arduino Course for Absolute Beginners – then this training will be right up your alley.
Reviews of our Training
"I found each lesson interesting and I looked forward to each one as I was enjoying them so much."
-John Simister, Victoria, AU
"Excellent job on the course. I very much enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thanks"
-Steve Tripoli
Required Hardware
- Arduino compatible board
- Sparkfun WAV trigger shield (optional)
- DFPlayer MP3 player
- Solderless Breadboard
- 1k Resistors (x2)
- Jumper wires
- 3W 8Ohm speaker
Course Description
We'll be covering..
- Criteria for selecting an audio board for you application
- WAV trigger hardware and coding
- DFPlayer hardware and coding
- Coding a basic MP3 player
Length of Instruction: 2 hours and 30 minutes of HD video instruction.
Import Notes: Transcripts of the videos are available on each course unit page. Relevant code is available on course unit pages.
Course Outline
- Audio Board Intro
- Audio Board Selection Criteria
- WAV Trigger – Overview
- WAV Trigger – Setting up WAV files
- WAV Trigger – Single Track
- WAV Trigger – Other Circuits
- WAV Trigger – Multiple Tracks
- DFPlayer – Introduction
- DFPlayer – Boilerplate Code
- DFPlayer – Single Track
- DFPlayer – Basic MP3 Controls
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