Adafruit Audio FX Mini Sound Board - WAV/OGG Trigger

Would you like to add audio/sound effects to your next project, without an Arduino+Shield?

Or maybe you don't even know how to use microcontrollers, you just want to make a sound play whenever you press a button. What about something that has to be very small and portable? You are probably feeling a little frustrated: it's been very hard to find a simple, low cost audio effects trigger that is easy to use and does not require any programming

UNTIL NOW!

Don't get me wrong, I love the MP3 Music Maker shield and the Audio FX Sound Board + 2x2W Amp . But you either need an Arduino or they might be a little too big and powerful for your needs. So after a lot of engineering and tinkering Adafruit have come out with the Adafruit MINI Sound Board, the fastest way to add audio effects to a project, with a small footprint. We think this is the best sound board for props and costumes!

The Sound Board has a lot of amazing features that make it the easiest thing ever:

No Arduino or other microcontroller required! It is completely stand-alone, just needs a 3 to 5.5VDC battery

Small - only 1.5" x 0.9"

Built in storage - yep! you don't even need an SD card, there's storage on the board itself. |Available with with either 16MB (good for ~15 minutes of compressed stereo, and maybe a couple minutes of uncompressed stereo) or 2MB (g ood for a few minutes of compressed stereo, and maybe half a minute of uncompressed stereo). Double that if you go with mono instead of stereo.

Built in Mass Storage USB - Plug any micro USB cable into the Sound Board and your Windows computer, you can drag and drop your files right on as if it were a USB key

Compressed or Uncompressed audio - Go with compressed Ogg Vorbis files for longer audio files, or uncompressed WAV files

High Quality Sound - You want 44.1KHz 16 bit stereo? Not a problem! The decoding hardware can handle any bit/sample rate and mono or stereo

8 Triggers - Connect up to 8 buttons or switches, each one can trigger audio files to play

Stereo line out - Headphones, powered speakers or even wire up one of our amplifiers to make loud sounds.

Five different trigger effects - by changing the name of the files, you can create five different types of triggers which will cover a large range of projects without any programming

Control over UART (9600 Baud) via any microcontroller, we have an Arduino Library for basic control over playback and volume.

What do we mean by trigger effects? Well, depending on your project you may need to have audio play in different ways. We thought of the five most common needs and built it into the Sound Board so you just rename the file to get the effect you want. See the product tutorial for more details