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Wiring up the amp and heaphone jack

A project log for Raspberry Pi 3 Gameboy

This is a DIY Raspberry Pi 3 gaming handheld running RetroPie to play all your classics!

sotasystemssotasystems 11/07/2016 at 21:310 Comments

Next up is the audio amplifier, speaker, potentiometer and the headphone jack

The amplifier has to be modified a little bit in order for it to shut down when headphones are plugged in.

For that, pin 12 needs to be desoldered from the board, and a wire soldered to it. It is the shutdown pin. We need to solder on a 10K or 20K pullup resistor to it and VCC, or the amp will stay off all the time:

Then the potentiometer is wired to the pi, the amp and the headphone jack:

And then I wired the speaker to the amp and glued everything in place:

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