The Rugged Audio Shield is designed to fit on top of Arduino Uno perfectly (without any soldering).. but I only have a lilypad. I was wondering if the shield could connect with my lilypad if I soldered them? Or if there is any other way to connect them together? Thanks guys!
Oh and in case you were wondering, the Rugged Audio Shield is below,
https://shop.ruggedcircuits.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=58
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Sure, just connect one to the other with jumpers.
Make sure your lily pad has all these pins:
D8 SPI Slave Select
D11 SPI MOSI
D12 SPI MISO
D13 SPI CLK
A3 Potentiometer
I know Lilypad protosnap does not make all of them accessible.
I have the lilypad usb though, would that still work? Thanks!
http://store.arduino.cc/ww/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=30&products_id=287
I would recommend you to use another Arduino than the Lilypad.
It runs on 3.3V and only on 8MHz, which can jeopardize your project.
I would not be surprised if there are a "software-SPI" library available so you can use the pins available on the Lilypad, but this would make it even slower.
I have the lilypad usb, which does not have pins 13, 12 or 8 accessible. Also, it is only supplying 3.3volts.
I'm wondering if I might be able to re-assign the pins from the lilypad to the audio shield in the code and also if I could just power the shield separately with 5 volts.
Any thoughts on this?
Thank you!
Shield page says it work on 3.3V.
You'd have to do some programming as fat16lib has done here to do software SPI to use other pins to mimic the hardware SPI.
(Search "16 bit sample and store" for an ongoing topic with some code listings)
Actually, here it is
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=180769.0
Compare this to the rugged shield libraries, no idea of this would be fast enough for this shield.