Shanling’s M0 Pura is the fourth generation of the company’s smallest portable touchscreen player, and before anyone gets the wrong idea, it won’t stream music over the air. There’s no WiFi, and ...

Yesterday we had Ferrum’s BROEN leaning on Volumio’s software while handing the digital-to-analogue conversion off to an outboard box. Today, the people who write that software show how they’d do the ...

The CD is having a surprising moment, with more new players hitting the market than in many years. Here are some of our favorite tested CD players.

So you've already outgrown Arduino's most beginner-friendly board, the Uno, and are looking to move on to bigger, more exciting projects. In that case, the Nano family might just be what you need.

Text-to-Speech, or TTS, is a technology that converts written text into spoken audio. It is commonly used in voice assistants, accessibility tools, alert systems, kiosks, and smart devices. On ...

What happens when you combine an Arduino-based microcontroller with a palm-sized aluminum box and clicky buttons? A fidget toy that invites coder creativity. I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, ...

Connect MP3 Player to the serial port of the board. In this example, we use software serial as the serial port (D2, D3); If you have other hardware Serial ports on you board, you can also connect to ...

ESP32 microcontrollers, known for their versatility in IoT and smart home projects, also support digital audio via their I2S interface. In the first part of this series, we explore an audio-focused ...

This library provides full access to the functions of the MY1690 MP3 decoder through a serial connection and a "busy" pin. This library is very simple to use with either a hardware or software serial ...

Have you ever wanted to know what is inside a digital audio mixing console? Or have you already programmed some MP3-player based on an ESP32 and the great Arduino libraries, but without the option for ...

In our daily lives, we use thermometers on various occasions and for various purposes, from medical needs to repair and diagnostic purposes. As you know there are different types of thermometers, and ...