first impressions
Dan - amazing on the shipping, it got here in one day!
I'm going to be working most on a maple, but that's back in Canada, so initial exploration is on an Arduino Uno.
sinewave worked great right out of the box. Most of the rest of them I had a bit of problem with, though. After a bit of fiddling I figured out that it was expecting line level inputs rather than mic inputs. That should have been obvious to me from the "Line_In" labeling on the board! Oh well.
Since it's mostly mic in stuff I'll be using it for I'll need to wire in to the mic inputs. I think what I'm going to do is drill a couple more mounting holes for that jack right where the text "audio codec shield" is. If you lay the board back out at some point it might be nice to leave jack pads rather than just solder points since there is that little bit of space on the board.
Also, looking at the arduino headers, it looks like I'll have to set mutemic and micboost. Looking at the datasheet I don't think I have to do anything else to get bias power. If you've used an electret please confirm that, though. Probably won't get to this until I get back to Canada, but I'll post on here with a description when I do...
Anyway, great first impressions. It worked great right off the bat. I've run through all the examples and look forward to getting into my project once I get back to Canada next week. Thanks for putting this out there!
--Derek
I'm going to be working most on a maple, but that's back in Canada, so initial exploration is on an Arduino Uno.
sinewave worked great right out of the box. Most of the rest of them I had a bit of problem with, though. After a bit of fiddling I figured out that it was expecting line level inputs rather than mic inputs. That should have been obvious to me from the "Line_In" labeling on the board! Oh well.
Since it's mostly mic in stuff I'll be using it for I'll need to wire in to the mic inputs. I think what I'm going to do is drill a couple more mounting holes for that jack right where the text "audio codec shield" is. If you lay the board back out at some point it might be nice to leave jack pads rather than just solder points since there is that little bit of space on the board.
Also, looking at the arduino headers, it looks like I'll have to set mutemic and micboost. Looking at the datasheet I don't think I have to do anything else to get bias power. If you've used an electret please confirm that, though. Probably won't get to this until I get back to Canada, but I'll post on here with a description when I do...
Anyway, great first impressions. It worked great right off the bat. I've run through all the examples and look forward to getting into my project once I get back to Canada next week. Thanks for putting this out there!
--Derek