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I got a MAX 9814 but quickly realized the output is analog and not digital. I found that I could get an Arduino Nano/Micro and connect it to my Pi via a USB to USB-micro cable but I wonder if there's something more compact or simpler that I can do?

To make this question deterministic how would you go about solving this problem? I come from a background of not knowing about how to convert the signals but can solder just fine.

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  • Not sure what you really want to know. You can buy ADCs (such as the MCP3xxx series) but they would need to be mounted on a circuit board and connected to the Pi. I'm not sure what you find simple or for that matter what you find compact.
    – joan
    Feb 25, 2016 at 18:16
  • Hi Joan! I honestly don't even know what an ADC is! I'd really take any suggestion.
    – dalanmiller
    Feb 25, 2016 at 18:19
  • Get a USB sound card and connect a microphone to it? What exactly do you want to do with the mic?
    – Craig
    Feb 25, 2016 at 18:39
  • I want to use the specific microphone component from Adafruit that I mentioned/linked above.
    – dalanmiller
    Feb 25, 2016 at 20:19

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Being a complete noob here when it comes to electrical engineering, what I needed was an "Analog to Digital Converter" abbreviated as ADC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog-to-digital_converter

This is necessary as output from the microphone is going to be continuous, i.e. anywhere between 0.0 to 1.0 inclusive. This will be 'discretized' by sampling the values and converting to 1 and 0 integers to be read by the Raspberry Pi.

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