10. Making Noise

You can do a lot of crazy things with an Arduino, and one of them is making noise! All you really need is a speaker wired in to a couple of pins, but you can add fun extras like buttons, knobs, and sensors to modify the sound. In this chapter, you’ll examine a few ways you can generate cool sounds with your Arduino, and then build a fun noisemaking toy (see Figure 10.1).

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FIGURE 10.1 In this chapter, you get to build a cool noisemaker.

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