Sound Detection Module

Introduction

In this tutorial, you will learn how to connect a sound sensor to your Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pin and make it detect sound using Python.

Required Hardware

• Raspberry Pi (any model)
• Sound Sensor
• Female to Female jumper wires
• microSD card with Raspbian installed.

Wiring

Connect the sound sensor to your Raspberry Pi as shown in the diagram below:

Code

On your Raspberry Pi, open a terminal window. Install python by the following commands:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y python-dev python-rpi.gpio

Download and save this file to your desktop

With the following commands you can execute the Python script that displays the distance:

cd Desktop

python sound.py

The script will detect sound every time. Press Ctrl + C to terminate the execution of the Python script.

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