Features:

  • No Arduino or other microcontroller required! Completely stand-alone, just needs a 3 to 5.5VDC battery
  • Small - only 1.9" x 0.85"
  • Built in Mass Storage USB with 16 MB storage- 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
  • 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
  • Header pins require soldering
I love it!

Such a cool board. Very well thought out. It makes adding sound to your projects so much easier. I used it with an Arduino UNO. The tutorial on Adafruit's website shows how to control the sound output based on serial commands so you don't have to wire 11 different buttons to it. However if you are making a simple project that only needs sound you can just wire up buttons to the inputs and this board can be a standalone device. I decided to make a motion activated device that says random quotes from beavis and butthead. Everyone has their hobbies.

... this component on a whim but am now in love with it

I bought this component on a whim but am now in love with it. Several thoughts: 1) This is the sort of item that strikes me as a perfect "first experiment" for those eager to get into DIY electronics but for whatever reason are slightly intimidated with the programming that goes along with a micro-controller like Arduino. It requires a little soldering (own a solder iron) and a breadboard is a definite must, plus a few wires. But other than that, it is a stand-alone product. You can have fun with it without ever getting into Arduino. 2) Sound quality is great considering the price and the USB interface to drop in sound files couldn't be simpler. 3) Finally, and this is important, keep in mind going into it that the trigger pins are actually "outputs" and not inputs.... the Vin and Gnd leads on the opposite, upper corner of the board need to be connected to between 3-5v, but after that, all that is required to trigger each sound file is to provide a wire connection it to the bottom GND pin below the trigger pins... I spent way to long trying to activate the sound files by APPLYING voltage to these pins as opposed to simply grounding them.... its a testament to Adafruit engineering I didn't damage the thing. In any case, highly recommended.

Easy, effective, and well built

Very easy to use, and upload audio file to. As with all Adafruit products I have had experience with, this item is very well made. We used this so that we could have button initiated sound for a Trunk-or-Treat prop. The Adafruit website has a great tutorial for the use of this sound board [...]

Cool Audio Tool For Sound Effects

This Adafruit exclusive audio tool worked great. I was able to program it play a bunch of sounds each one randomly chosen. The instructions on the site are easy to follow for this check it out at [....]

Works great

Great little board. No problems, easy to understand with the tutorial and did exactly what I wanted it to do. It is a bit slow to load files over the USB port, but you only have to do that once (hopefully) so it's not a big deal.

Easy to use and great quality to match!

I purchased this product for a haunted house that we made at work. We didn't have a great deal of time to setup the entire house and unfortunately this portion was put off until the end. Thankfully the product is wonderfully documented at Adafruit and it was very possibly the easiest portion of the project to do. We had it wired up to a simple push button that would play thunder and a separate Arduino controlled the lighting effects. The sound quality it is able to produce is absolutely astounding. I have a good deal of background in audio engineering and I was blown away at how clean the sound was. We used oog files for the audio and free online converters to get them to that format. I would say it was completely worth it and, everyone who went through was dying to know how we did it too!

Setting up additional car horn sounds.

Just tested it so far. Works well. I’m getting a buzz sound, but I think that’s my amplifier not this board. Easy to setup without coding.

Awesome product. Works amazing with an arduino. I received the standard board and not the mini which is pictured.

I bought this expecting it to be the mini fx board which is pictured. Instead I received the standard fx board with the head phone jack. This is perfect for what I wanted but be aware you may not get the mini.

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