DFPlayer Mini MP3 Player

The player is great but the documentation is terrible. Found a similar product with the same pin outs and commands and was able to get this product working with the documentation from the other product on my Parallax Propeller. I may submit an Object in the OBEX for it.

These are really easy to work with as a stand alone device using either the IO pins or the ADKEY system and can also be controlled with a microcontroller. I did find some mislabeled functions on pins IO1&IO2 (vol +/- prev/next) in the manual, breadboard this first to confirm. For 2 out of 3 of the projects that I've used these for I haven't needed a microcontroller, using a microcontroller was more challenging. I figure that most folk will be able to look at the manual and get an idea of how well their skills will be suited to combining this with a microcontroller.

wow .. that's a great little player for just $11.00. Once you get past the hieroglyphic manual, and the outright errors in the checksum calculations in their examples, it works beautifully. Clean, quality audio....again only $11.00....wow. Would have been 5 stars except for the manual

Documentation is missing some information and was wrong in some areas! Use SDFormatter app, not the format provided by Windows, to format an SD card. The player itself works well after a few google searches for example code.

I am using this into the rc helicopter project, it works great and sync the sound with all the scale details