Playing audio files in a Pi Pico without a DAC

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  • Pico-USB-audio

    Sigma Delta Modulation for RP2040, ESP32, Teensy

  • Using PWM to play audio is flawed (but usable for many applications), other approaches such a sigma-delta will lead to much better results, but with a lot more effort. https://github.com/tierneytim/Pico-USB-audio seems like a reasonable implementation at first glance.

  • mico

    Open Source PDM to USB microphone based on the Raspberry PI RP2040. (by mkvenkit)

  • Agreed.

    While ΔΣ modulation, also known as pulse-density modulation, is not supported in "hardware" on Pi Pico, it is possible to do it in "software" with programmable IO, like in tierneytim's Pico-USB-audio project you're linking to.

    Also, PDM input could be done in similar fashion: https://github.com/mkvenkit/mico

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  • It was actually quite simple and a lot of fun to write (and hear!).

    Video: [1]

    Source code: [2]

    [1]: https://blog.eldruin.com/ad983x-waveform-generator-dds-drive...

    [2]: https://github.com/eldruin/driver-examples/blob/master/stm32...

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    Modern software development for embedded systems

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