In my Arduino AudioTools I am providing an easy API with different implementations for Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). This is a clever algorithm that can extracts the frequencies from an input signal. So far I never looked at the speed, so I thought it might be interesting to get to Read more
The STM32 Cube IDE supports all features of the STM32 microcontrollers, but it is quite difficult to use. The STM32duino is the official Arduino implementation from STM, which is easy to use – but provides only the basic functionality! I was missing I2S in Arduino, so I was wondering, what Read more
Quite some time ago I was playing with the idea that it should be quite easy to implement a web server in Arduino that provides the same audio signal to multiple users. All that needs to be done is register new connections and close them when the user closes the Read more
Quite some time ago, I tried to use the functionality of the Arduino Audio Tools to download a file from an URL and store it on a SD card, but I was running into some problems. I finally found the time to investigate the issue and I have the functionality Read more
The AudioKit and some ESP32 Processors have 4MB of SPI RAM that we can use e.g. to store recorded audio. I was playing with the idea to build some looping logic. Therefore I have added an additional DynamicMemoryStream class that can stores the audio data on the heap. With the 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
I converted some Audio C++ libraries into Arduino Libraries and used symlinks which point to the original file locations to make sure that Arduino can find all relevant files. This approach was working fine in OSX and Linux. Unfortunately this seems to create problems in Windows, so I decided to Read more
The ESP32 microcontroller has only a few hundred kilobytes of internal RAM. Fortunately the ESP32 AudioKit or ESP32 Wrover provide 8MB PSRAM where 4MB can be directly addressed. More information how to use PSRAM in Arduino can be found here. The only thing to highlight is that PSRAM can not Read more