In the old days I was rather a Commodere PC guy, but I know of colleagues of mine that were addicted to the Commodore 64 and knew it inside out. So, here is another project that makes you feel nostalgic: Sound Interface Device (SID) is a audio format used by Read more…
Recently somebody asked me to provide some pink noise! I knew about white noise, but I did not know that noise can come in different colors. So this is the perfect opportunity to play around with noise.
I had some pitch shifting effect on my to-do list for a long time now and finally managed to provide this in my Arduino Audio Tools Library. Pitch shifting is the functionality to change the pitch of an input signal w/o changing the length. If you use a higher pitch Read more…
I added support for the VS1053 breakout boards to my Arduino Audio Tools project. Finally the recording of sound from the microphone or the aux input is working as well both for the VS1003 and VS1053 devices! Arduino Sketch It is working the same like any other input: #include “AudioTools.h” Read more…
The VS1053 and VS1003 audio codecs support real time MIDI. While the VS1003 only provides a few instruments, the VS1053 has 128 melodic instruments and quite a few additional percussion instruments! When GPIO0 is low and GPIO1 is high during boot, real-time MIDI mode is activated. Unfortunately these pins are Read more…
I added support for the VS1053 breakout boards to my Arduino Audio Tools project. This module is interesting if you have a microcontroller that does not support I2S because all communication is going via SPI. Some boards also include an SD drive. The major disadvantage is the number of pins Read more…
The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is a mathematical operation that changes the domain (x-axis) of a signal from time to frequency. This is particularly useful for determining the frequency of a signal or for decomposing a signal consisting of multiple frequencies. I had this on my to-do list for quite Read more…
Unfortunately the available memory on Microcontrollers is quite restricted and we do not get very far by storing a (uncompressed) WAV file e.g. in program/flesh memory, so I started to look into compressed audio formats. On the desktop we can use the FFmpeg project which comes with a rich set Read more…
In one of my last Posts I have described an approach how we can implement a simple audio output using PWM using the Raspberry Pico. The advantage of this approach is, that we can output audio to almost any GPIO pin, and that it can be used on any other Read more…
I had the need to pass some callback functions to some of my generic C++ Arduino classes. So I was asking myself if we can use Lambdas in Arduino. Here is a small test sketch, to verify this. #include “TestLambda.h” void setup() { auto f1 = [](int number) { Serial.println(number); Read more…