Petition to make a speaker module for VRC

[UvuvwevweOnyetenye]

• Have a speaker module on V5
• Don’t have a speaker module on V5

I think a speaker would be really cool. @jpearman yall should make this thing happen.

[Xenon27]

did you forget the topic you made on this already and received the answer to why it is impossible?

Adding a speaker to a V5: my journey

I have an idea. It’s a crazy one, and I love it. I want to find a library that can do digital to analog output so we can use the vex speakers. It’d be great to play dancing queen by abba while we’re decimating our enemies with our autonomous. I do believe you can import the library once I get it very easily, if I need to do any debugging then I’ll do it (or try to) and then post everything that you can possibly fix. I have no idea if it’ll work by the way. https://www.cplusplus.com/forum/genera…

[jpearman]

@UvuvwevweOnyetenye

I think a speaker would be really cool. @jpearman yall should make this thing happen.

Didn’t we cover this before ?

The V5 does not have DAC (digital to analog conversion) capability, it would be a hardware change to the V5 brain to add audio, not going to happen.

The cpu in EXP does have a DAC, therefore it has audio.

IQ generation 2 had to have similar capability as IQ generation 1, so it can play simple sounds, but (at least for the time being, perhaps one day) there’s no capability for users to add sounds.

[DougMoyers]

So glad the speaker went away. Primary use case was sucking up student time to play “another one bites the dust”.

[apandey]

Odds are some younger kids will end up using it to be obnoxious

[Deathtooall13]

@jpearman

@UvuvwevweOnyetenye

I think a speaker would be really cool. @jpearman yall should make this thing happen.

Didn’t we cover this before ?

The V5 does not have DAC (digital to analog conversion) capability, it would be a hardware change to the V5 brain to add audio, not going to happen.

The cpu in EXP does have a DAC, therefore it has audio.

IQ generation 2 had to have similar capability as IQ generation 1, so it can play simple sounds, but (at least for the time being, perhaps one day) there’s no capability for users to add sounds.

you can use the vex brain normally and the EXP for the sound but it would be kinda annoying

[technik3k]

Wouldn’t it be cool to allow students to make their own VRC legal add-on modules within limited areas of functionality, like the sound?

Perhaps, even have a special award category that judges design and build process of such electronics, subject to special rules and limitations, of course.

[Foster]

So so so sad to think this is the best thing that people want to focus the top minds at VEX creating,

[Foster]

@technik3k

Perhaps, even have a special award category that judges design and build process of such electronics, subject to special rules and limitations, of course.

Oh pick me pick me, are you thinking of the VEX part contest were the best designed VEX parts win an award AND THEN THEY ACTUALLY MAKE AND SELL THEM? Across the last 4 years there have been parts that I went “Yep, give it a SKU and a price and take my money, ship me 4”. Cause that entire “you cant 3D print parts, but if VEX printed them and then sold them that would be just fine.”

Sell me the award winners.!!

[nenik]

My team, during In the Zone, did a cone counter, which was somewhat helpful (auto-scoring cones on the mogo had to target specific height and if it missed, the second driver had a chance to tick the internal counter up or down, with audible, spoken feedback from the robot).
They missed the speaker when we switched to V5.

Anyway, adding external speaker to V5 would be quite easy. The smart ports could be reconfigured to act as a RS485 UART (up to 115200bps I believe) with user-code provided payload, while there is enough buffering in the OS for user thead to feed 8khz/8bit audio in real time.

[jpearman]

@nenik

Anyway, adding external speaker to V5 would be quite easy. The smart ports could be reconfigured to act as a RS485 UART (up to 115200bps I believe) with user-code provided payload,

actually up to 921600 (I think that’s within 3% allowed tolerance)

[UvuvwevweOnyetenye]

Oh wow… forgot about that one. What a throwback. Ok maybe V6 can you guys do that though cuz it would be really cool.

[UvuvwevweOnyetenye]

Yes. Yes it is. Also making the software open source but >_>

[9MotorGang]

Might want to read your own thread. While it’s not categorized as chit chat, it could be…

So many chit chat threads…

@jpearman is there anything we can do about the mass amount of chit chat threads? This is getting ridiculous. Everyone on the forums to talk instead of solving problems, and it’s going to get worse, because as new users join they’ll think this is ok, and more spam will come out.

[UvuvwevweOnyetenye]

I wouldn’t call it chit chat. Since it’s requesting something to be made, instead of just “let’s make a new memes thread” I think it’s fine. Plus, I don’t necessarily have a problem with chit chat threads, it’s just that when people make 17 of the same one literally days between each other it’s ridiculous, which I stated.

[nenik]

You mean, like:

New Products - May 2022 (EXP Products for V5)

We’ve all been there, you’re putting together a complicated part of your robot, and just as you finish tightening that last screw, you realize that you forgot a spacer and have to take it apart again. That’s now a thing of the past with the Click-On Spacer Variety Pack (276-8019)! [276-8019] As the name implies, these spacers simply click anywhere onto a shaft. No need to slide it onto the end! These spacers come in a variety pack, that include (10) each of the following sizes: 0.063" 0.12…

from The VEX Clip-On Spacer | Online Challenges
I wonder if Vex will go for Self-Timing Competition Switch | Online Challenges, see
A Timing Competition Switch

[Foster]

Cool!

Submitted by vex99157
Entry ID #: 6247
Created: Mon, Jan 14, 2019 10:26 PM

They look pretty neat, wonder if @Sidoti will cross reference these for VIQ?