Circuit Playground Arduino wav file Moderators: adafruit_support_bill, adafruit

[Lisa_M]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to find a guide for how to play a .wav file while coding Circuit Playground with arduino. I'm not having any luck. Everything keeps pointing me to Circuit Python - which i'm currently not using with my students.

Anyone have a helpful link?

Thanks

[Lisa_M]

I should add that we picked up some STEMMA speakers too. There are makecode and circuit python projects ...but nothing in arduino that I can find.

[danhalbert]

I'm assuming these are Circuit Playground Express boards, not Circuit Playground Classic (it says on the back). Is that right?

You can use the ArduinoZero library, which plays audio on SAMD21-based boards: https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/lib ... audiozero/

[Lisa_M]

We are using a mix of Circuit Playground and Circuit Playground Express because I do not have a full class set of Express.

It's nice to know there is an audio library for the SAMD board.

I'm pretty new to Arduino though so I'm also hoping for some sample code or a tutorial so I can see the code in action.

Thank you.

[danhalbert]

There is a simple example here, which I think would also show up in the examples in the Arduino IDE: https://github.com/arduino-libraries/Au ... erZero.ino

In general, for a plain Arduino board, there is not enough flash to hold a .wav file of any size. There are Arduino shields for SD cards so you can play .wav files. Otherwise most Arduino audio is playing tones.

[Lisa_M]

Thank you, I'll check that out. Much appreciated.