Arduino Decibel Meter

This project will help you to monitor the noise or sound level by measuring sound pressure.

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Description

The project is about how we can easily monitor the sound level by simply measuring sound pressure.

Details

About Project

The purpose of the decibel meter is to access the noise or sound level by measuring sound pressure.

The Microphone must have an analog output.

Make connections as shown in above dig using the breadboard and make sure you are properly connecting the LEDs with resistors.

Use male-male cables to connect everything. The microphone module can also be plugged into the breadboard.

Run a Code as mentioned below.

The first loop is for the LEDs setup and the second is to control the LEDs. You can customize the sensitivity by changing the value in the map function.

Components

1 × Arduino Microphone
1 × 5 mm LED: Green
1 × 5 mm LED: Yellow
1 × 5 mm LED: Red
1 × Through Hole Resistor, 200 ohm

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Build Instructions

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Run a Program

void setup() {
//here is an input for sound sensor
pinMode(A0, INPUT);
//here we are setting up all pins as an outputs for LEDs
for(int z = 0; z < 10; z++){
pinMode(z, OUTPUT);
}
}
void loop() {
//here we are storing the volume value
int volume = analogRead(A0);
//max value for analog read is 1023 but it must be very very loud to reach this value
//so I lower it down in map function to 700
//mapping volume value to make it easier to turn LEDs on
volume = map(volume, 0, 700, 0, 10);
//for loop to turn on or off all LEDs
//thanks to this loop code for this project is very short
//we are going through all pins where we have LEDs and checking if the volume is
//bigger then pin number (that's why we are maping the volume)
for(int a = 0; a < 10; a++){ if(volume >= a){
//if it is bigger we can turn on the LED
digitalWrite(a, HIGH);
}else{
//if it is smaller we can turn the LED off
digitalWrite(a, LOW);
}
}
}