WM8960 Audio Module Hi-Fi Sound Card HAT for Raspberry Pi 4B+ 4B 3B+ 3B 2B+ Zero W WH 2W Stereo CODEC Play/Record
$21.80
Price: $21.80
(as of Jan 06, 2025 14:15:45 UTC – Details)
Description
Sound card HAT designed for Raspberry Pi, low power consumption, supports stereo encoding / decoding, features Hi-Fi playing / recording,
what’s more, it can directly drive speakers to play music.
Specifications
CODEC: WM8960
Power supply: 5V
Logic voltage: 3.3V
Control interface: I2C
Audio interface: I2S
DAC signal-noise ratio: 98dB
ADC signal-noise ratio: 94dB
Earphone driver: 40mW (16Ω@3.3V)
Speaker driver: 1W per channel (8Ω BTL)
Package include
Note: Raspberry Pi in the photos is NOT included.
1. WM8960 Audio HAT x1
2. 8Ω 5W Speaker x1
3. RPi screws pack (2pcs) x1
WM8960 Audio HAT with standard Raspberry Pi 40PIN GPIO extension header, supports Raspberry Pi series boards
WM8960 Hi-Fi Sound Card HAT, integrates WM8960 low power stereo CODEC, communicates via I2S interface
WM8960 audio codec, integrates dual high-quality MEMS silicon Mic, supports left & right double channels recording, nice sound quality
Audio Module for Raspberry Pi, supports sound effects such as stereo, 3D surrounding, etc.
Comes with development resources and manual (python demo code for playing / recording), feel free to contact us for adress and technical support
Onboard standard 3.5mm earphone jack, play music via external earphone;dual-channel speaker interface, directly drives speakers
4 reviews for WM8960 Audio Module Hi-Fi Sound Card HAT for Raspberry Pi 4B+ 4B 3B+ 3B 2B+ Zero W WH 2W Stereo CODEC Play/Record
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DJRob –
Capable Sound HAT for RPi
Took a little research to figure out how to get it working – google waveshare wm8960 and you’ll find a Wiki with step by step instructions. One star off for no mention of drivers, support link, or instructions in the product listing nor included in/on the product packaging. It’s not plug-n-play. BTW, this is Waveshare and comes in a Waveshare box.Those Wiki instructions will have you clone a git repo then run the included shell script. Word of caution- that script does a lot. Since I’m not the most trusting of running random scripts with admin privileges, I created a RaspberryPi OS image on a fresh SD card for the ‘experimenting’. Did not study every single thing it installed or modified, but again, it was a lot. At the end of all that, it did work perfectly and created a new sound device that can be selected from the speaker icon in the system bar. Played the audio from a YT video in chromium just fine.The included speakers are much bigger than pictured in the listing (thankfully), but they’re nothing great. The board does have a pair of built in microphones- I did not test these. Now that I’ve had some time to play with it, I’m not sure it’s worth the effort and HAT space over just using amplified speakers plugged into the RPi’s headphone jack or stream audio through BT. I’m sure the audio quality is better through this HAT, but it’s not high resolution or anything fancy like that. The onboard chip is from Wolfson and includes a Class D stereo 1w amplifier with <0.1% THD and 24bit delta sigma ADCs and DACs according to the datasheet.For the tinkerer wanting to explore audio in/out and maybe repurpose the ADC/DACs for fun, this could be a good choice. I can see a use with robotics.
John –
Cheap speakers, functional HAT
First of all, the size of the speakers that come with this HAT was a bit of a surprise. They appear small in the product photo but are actually a couple of inches tall each. They are pretty lousy quality, so I recommend replacing them with better speakers⦠but very handy for testing out the HAT.The HAT was easy to install on my Raspberry Pi Zero W: just pop in some header pins, place the HAT on top, and plug in the included speakers. Installing the software and utilities was trickier: following along the Waveshare wiki is usually a challenge. I was using dietpi for my base image so had to figure out which drivers and tools I needed that are normally baked into the operating system. I managed to get it all working in the end and do a quick test of recording and playback: easy peasy.I included a video of playing a sample song provided by waveshare – sounds much better on my laptop speakers than the provided ones, of course. This HAT is fine and functional, but I have used cheaper ones before that work just as well.
Amazon Customer –
Funciona perfectamente. Viene mejor empaquetado para lo que es este tipo de productos. Los altavoces que aparecen en la imagen son muy pequeños y no corresponden a la realidad. Los altavoces reales son mucho más grandes, aproximadamente el doble de largos y anchos que la placa, aunque muy finos. La placa es muy sencilla de incorporar en proyectos de hobby.
christian johansson –
I rhought the speakers where smäller then actual side. Based on the pictures.