Menus spring clean

April 15, 2018 XTronical 0

The main menu’s have been refreshed with the ones for shopping removed. In the future they may return as I do intend to sell kits of the projects on these pages but the time required to do that is something that I do not have at the moment. Menu names […]

Video : ESP32 Music Synthesizer

April 12, 2018 XTronical 0

This video introduces the latest update to the DACAudio library by demonstrating its synthesis capabilities. It’s at a basic stage at the moment so no release of the code yet, but shows how easy it is to play musical scores with the various instruments available.

Playing Wavs – Updated

March 16, 2018 XTronical 0

The library introduced in the previous article on playing WAV’s using a DAC (on ESP32) has been re-written to allow for more flexibility in the future. The coding change in your code is only minor despite the re-write being large. Click to read full article.

ESP32 Interrupts and OOP programming panics!

February 25, 2018 XTronical 0

The quick read : use only simple globals in ESP32 Interrupts do not use objects! The longer read below… As part of my sound module (to be used first in the Frogger build) I have to use interrupts as a necessity. In addition I like to work in OOP when I […]

Wow, feeling very appreciated – More thank-you’s

February 18, 2018 XTronical 0

When people donate to the site it does make you feel like you’re providing something of interest to viewers. It spurs you on to create more content and yes, makes you feel appreciated in the efforts that you make. As I write this I was just soldering up a mini-project […]

More thank-you’s to donators

February 16, 2018 XTronical 0

There have been a few donations lately to the web-site, which is fantastic, it enables me to fund the hosting independently. At the moment the donations combined with the Adsense adverts nearly cover hosting costs. Which is amazing for the site and in recently weeks the number of page hits […]

Supporting Video: ESP32 Talking!

February 5, 2018 XTronical 0

Supporting video for the article on getting your ESP32 to playback WAV files/ digital sound. This video covers what’s in the article as well as explaining how to add your own WAV’s.

Making your ESP32 talk!

February 1, 2018 XTronical 0

In this article we will make the ESP32 play wav files/ digitised sound through it’s DAC. A library is available to download on this page to allow you to simply play your files whilst your main code still runs, i.e. sound plays independently of your main program.