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Make: Sensors
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Make: Sensors

by Tero Karvinen, Kimmo Karvinen, Ville Valtokari
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
8h 42m
English
Make: Community
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Chapter 11. Sound

Raspberry Pi can record and analyze sounds. In one project, you’ll use a fast Fourier transform (FFT) to split sound into frequencies. This calculation can extract frequencies from any wave. With Arduino, you’ll use a microphone to measure volume.

Experiment: Hearing Voices/Volume Level

A microphone can detect sound level. This first experiment simply reads and prints values from a microphone.

For many projects, you probably want to manipulate the numbers read from the microphone. You could set a threshold, apply a moving average, or detect minimum and maximum values. Later examples in this chapter let you try setting ...

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