DacAudio Ver. 4.1.0

January 19, 2019 XTronical 13

This latest version adds the ability to speed up or slow down the playback speed of a WAV file, either by setting the speed before playing or actually changing the speed on the fly whilst it’s playing! A supporting video is available below and the new library is available on […]

Driving a Speaker

October 20, 2018 XTronical 6

Driving a Speaker – Adding an Audio Amplifier (Adding the PAM8403 to a MCU) Piezo speakers (see here) are great where you don’t need high quality or loud sound or indeed where space is at a premium. But for anything else a small (or even large speaker) is the only […]

256×320 Colour LCD (5408 driver)

September 9, 2018 XTronical 0

256×320 colour LCD screens are widely and cheaply available and very often come on a board that we can connect up to an Arduino Uno (and some other boards types). It’s then just a simple manner of adding the required libraries and trying out an example. This is all we […]

Driving Stepper Motors (28BYJ-48)

August 11, 2018 XTronical 2

A supporting video is available for this article : Brief Introduction to Stepper Motors A stepper motor behaves just like a normal motor in so much that it has a rotating shaft but that’s where the similarity mostly ends. When hooked up to some sort of controlling device the shaft […]

Large data memory issues with ESP32

August 1, 2018 XTronical 2

UPDATE : Original article still below, but it has been brought to my attention that there is an issue with the my code that causes this issue! Doh! So a fix will be out soon for the DacAudio project.   I noticed a problem some time ago whilst working with […]

Frogger on ESP32 – Now with sound!!

May 29, 2018 XTronical 0

The long overdue next video instalment of the frogger series is here. In this episode I show the addition of some arcade original sampled sounds for the jump and deaths of the frog. Which adds some good depth to the game. Click to watch the video.

Video : ESP32 Music Synthesizer

April 12, 2018 XTronical 0

This video introduces the latest update to the DACAudio library by demonstrating its synthesis capabilities. It’s at a basic stage at the moment so no release of the code yet, but shows how easy it is to play musical scores with the various instruments available.

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Space Invaders build and code part 2

May 27, 2017 XTronical 0

Part two of the Space Invaders Arduino coding is now available as both a web page and video. Here we look at storing and creating graphics in an Arduino program and displaying several at once on an OLED display. Available from the menus above or from clicking here. If you […]