So a few months ago, I made this "Arduino Atari Punk Synth" with a custom ATmega328PU minimal setup connected directly with a speaker, 10K pot, and a 3D-printed enclosure.
It was based on Mozzi Library for Arduino Uno which allows a microcontroller to change pitch, frequency, bass, the volume of a sound sample and with controlling these parameters we can make a huge variety of sound. http://tinyurl.com/mozzilib/Mozzi.zip
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I designed its Body in Fusion 360 and circuit in OrCad Cadance and assemble everything according to this schematic.
The results were good but the sound was not loud because I have connected the speaker directly with digital pin 9.
So in order to make this circuit loud (To annoy neighbors with weird sounds generated by this synth), I added the PAM8403 Audio amplifier module to this setup.
The PAM8403 is a 2-channel, 3W, class-D audio amplifier module that features low harmonic distortion and high efficiency. It offers low THD+N, allowing it to achieve high-quality sound reproduction. Operating voltage for this module range from 2.5 V to 5.5 V, making it ideal for adding the audio capability to your MP3 and MP4 player projects.
So I added this module to my Previous synth setup without changing anything in it at all. The code remains the same as last time, only the hardware has been tweaked a little bit.
Watch the test video
So yeah, PAM8403 has successfully improved the Synth's volume! now I can annoy people around me by generating weird sounds for no special reason.
here's the previous post about synth along with its Video-
https://www.hackster.io/Oniichan_is_ded/arduino-atari-punk-synth-2934e8
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