Product Review

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 .  And our Wave Shield is a dependable classic.  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 we've 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 16MB of storage on the board itself. Good for ~15 minutes of compressed stereo, and maybe a couple minutes of uncompressed stereo. Double that if you go with mono instead of stereo. If you don't need as much space, we also have a 2MB version.
• 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 hardwar
  
  
  • Designed for people who wanted to make props, costumes, toys, and other small portable projects.
  • Completely stand-alone, just needs a 3 to 5.5VDC battery. No microcontroller required!
  • Built in Mass Storage USB with 16 MB storage. Drag and drop your files right on it.
  • High Quality Sound - decoding hardware handles any bit/sample rate and mono or stereo