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Make a talking MSP430 microcontroller

• by Ian Lesnet (RSS feed) on Apr 25th 2008 3:30PM
• Filed under audio and video, computers and internet, geek it yourself, electronics, GIY: Geek-it-yourself

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This article continues a series about building a DIY digital audio recorder. Inspired by this microcontroller audio project [via], I set out to build a simple digital recording device. I chose Texas Instrument's MSP430 microcontroller for this project because it's fast (16 MHz), it's cheap ($1), and it's very low power. Read the first part, and the second part.

This week we'll progress towards a digital audio recorder by playing audio files from a SD memory card. First, we'll convert an audio file to a raw format and image it directly to a SD card. Then, we'll interface the SD card with the MSP430 and play an audio file. See it in the video:


Next time we'll extend this basic circuit to include a microphone and audio recording capabilities.

Read on to learn more about generating audio with a microcontroller.

Gallery: MSP430 audio output

Tags: audio recorder, AudioRecorder, circuit, electronics, engadget, featured, msp430

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7-02-2008 @ 1:16AM

Matthew said...

Ian,
I love your work here. I was wondering if I can see a listing of your code.

I have worked on a simular project. I read a SD card. Actually I use the MSP430 to read a SD card and us it for boot flash for a DSP... I do think a very simple FAT system could be used for such an application, but I just format the card then put the file on it. This puts the file at the same place every time. That is the first data sector of the FAT... I do think I could get the FAT working, but for my case it has not been needed. I am using F2012...

Anyway I would love to see your listing of code.

Matthew

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7-02-2008 @ 1:23AM

Ian Lesnet said...

Thanks Matthew,

You can find all the code and design files in the project archive. It's linked at the top of page five:
http://www.diylife.com/2008/04/25/make-a-talking-msp430-microcontroller-part-5/

Cheers,

Ian

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