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MagicHat - 15 - Let's MagicHat speak

amgalbu

After finishing the data acquisition part of the project, let's see how to make the MagicHat a little more... magic

 

To make Arduino Yun speak, I first need an external USB audio card like this one here

 

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Then, I need to install an mp3 player that will play a file stored on SD card. Installing the mp3 player is just a few packages away...

 

opkg update
 opkg install kmod-sound-core 
 opkg install kmod-usb-audio 
 opkg install madplay

 

Since the control logic runs on the Atmel side of Arduino Yun, we need to devise a way to launch the player. To send data from Atmel to Linino I disabled the bridge, so now Serial1 is read by NodeJS.

So, the firmware running on Atmel will send out (by calling Serial1.println) a string like

 

PLAY helloworld.mp3

 

and NodeJS will launch the mp3 player to play to "helloworld.mp3" file

 

This can easily achieved using the NodeJS's 'exec'  package

 

var exec = require('child_process').exec;
exec('/usr/bin/madplay ' + filename);