4. The AMP audio skin¶

4.1. Example code¶

The AMP skin has a speaker which is connected to DAC(1) via a small power amplifier. The volume of the amplifier is controlled by a digital potentiometer, which is an I2C device with address 46 on the IC2(1) bus.

To set the volume, define the following function:

import pyb
def volume(val):
    pyb.I2C(1, pyb.I2C.MASTER).mem_write(val, 46, 0)

Then you can do:

>>> volume(0)   # minimum volume
>>> volume(127) # maximum volume

To play a sound, use the write_timed method of the DAC object. For example:

import math
from pyb import DAC

# create a buffer containing a sine-wave
buf = bytearray(100)
for i in range(len(buf)):
    buf[i] = 128 + int(127 * math.sin(2 * math.pi * i / len(buf)))

# output the sine-wave at 400Hz
dac = DAC(1)
dac.write_timed(buf, 400 * len(buf), mode=DAC.CIRCULAR)

You can also play WAV files using the Python wave module. You can get the wave module here and you will also need the chunk module available here. Put these on your pyboard (either on the flash or the SD card in the top-level directory). You will need an 8-bit WAV file to play, such as this one, or to convert any file you have with the command:

avconv -i original.wav -ar 22050 -codec pcm_u8 test.wav

Then you can do:

>>> import wave
>>> from pyb import DAC
>>> dac = DAC(1)
>>> f = wave.open('test.wav')
>>> dac.write_timed(f.readframes(f.getnframes()), f.getframerate())

This should play the WAV file.