Adafruit's WAV Shield - Installing the Library
Other WAV Shield pages: Recording Voice | Converting Sound | Prepare SD Card | Playing files (code)
First, you'll need to download and install the library, which isn't as easy because the 'Manage Libraries' feature doesn't include this for automatic installation. Instead, we have to do it manually.
1. Download the .zip - go to their github page
2. Click the Download ZIP button
First, you'll need to download and install the library, which isn't as easy because the 'Manage Libraries' feature doesn't include this for automatic installation. Instead, we have to do it manually.
1. Download the .zip - go to their github page
2. Click the Download ZIP button
3. You need to Extract the folder, the zip opens and people think it's extracted, but it's still zipped
4. You can click the Extract all button shown below or right click on the zipped folder and Extract all
5. It extracts to a folder with the real library folder inside, so you have to open the top folder to move the library
6. Move it to the Libraries folder inside your Arduino folder (probably in Documents)
See below for these steps
7. Quit Arduino and open it again.
8. Check to see if it worked:
8. Check to see if it worked:
If it didn't you missed a detail above, check...
- did you extract the zipped folder?
- did you move the correct folder (the innermost one from the uncompressed folder)?
- did you completely quit Arduino and then start again?
- did you put it in the correct libraries folder?