Playing WAV Files on ESP8266

Posted on Sun 15 September 2019 in ESP8266/ESP32 View Comments • Tagged with esp8266, arduino, embedded, wav

In the previous post, ESP8266 was playing music based on pitch sequences and a recording of a sine wave. This is not sufficient for the speech sythesis system. A method for playing WAV files is required.

Fortunately, WAV format uses PCM to represents the waveform. Thus the data can be …


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PCM Audio on ESP8266 using the PCM5102 Chip

Posted on Thu 22 August 2019 in ESP8266/ESP32 View Comments • Tagged with esp8266, arduino, embedded

One of the projects I am currently working on is a text to speech system based on ESP8266 (or more realistically - ESP32). It will utilize the CMU Flite speech synthesis library. But a way to play back the synthesized waveform is also required.

For this propose, I will use a …


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Better TFT Library for ESP8266

Posted on Tue 20 August 2019 in ESP8266/ESP32 View Comments • Tagged with esp8266, arduino, embedded, ili9341

In 2016 I wrote a tutorial about connecting ESP8266 with an ili9341 TFT display. That tutorial suggested using Adafruit's library modified to work with the ESP8266.

Now I discovered that there is a much better library which is tailored for the ESP8266. This library is called TFT_eSPI.

This library is …


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Connecting ESP8266 with ILI9341 TFT Display

Posted on Fri 04 March 2016 in ESP8266/ESP32 View Comments • Tagged with esp8266, arduino, embedded, ili9341

ESP8266 was popular with hobbyists for a long time. Recently I decided to join the hype and bought this module along with a super cheap color TFT display (ILI9341). In this post I will describe the process of connecting those two, using already available code written for Arduino.

ESP8288 connected to ILI9341

First step …


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