The AMP audio skin
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Soldering and using the AMP audio skin.

.. image:: http://micropython.org/static/doc/skin-amp-1.jpg
    :alt: AMP skin
    :width: 250px

.. image:: http://micropython.org/static/doc/skin-amp-3.jpg
    :alt: AMP skin
    :width: 250px

The following video shows how to solder the headers, microphone and speaker onto the AMP skin.

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Example code
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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::

    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](/static/doc/examples/wave.py) and you will also need
the chunk module available [here](/static/doc/examples/chunk.py).  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](/static/doc/examples/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.