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# Pimoroni Pirate Audio: Dual Mic for Raspberry Pi

**Type:** Product page · **SKU:** PIM524 · **Brand:** [Pimoroni](https://core-electronics.com.au/brands/pimoroni-australia) · **GTIN:** 769894016381
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Capture sounds in stereo and store them safely away in your Raspberry Pi with Pirate Audio: Dual Mic. It has a matched pair of I2S microphones, a vibrant high-res colour display, and four tactile control buttons.

## Pricing

- **Price:** $54.15 (inc GST) — $49.23 AUD, exc GST
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## Availability & dispatch

- In stock, ships same business day if ordered before 2PM (Australia/Sydney).
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## Description

This Raspberry Pi mini HAT is perfect for recording stereo audio clips at the click of a button. You could use it as a mini dictaphone for recording important notes, shopping lists, melodies, or prophetic dreams, or if you wanted to take it a step further you could use it to capture sounds to analyze with machine learning or even hook it up to Google Assistant or Alexa APIs.

Pirate Audio is a range of all-in-one audio boards for Raspberry Pi, with high-quality digital audio, beautifully-crisp IPS displays, tactile buttons for software control, and custom Pirate Audio software.

**Features**

- 2x SPH0645LM4H-B microphones ([datasheet](https://core-electronics.com.au/attachments/localcontent/sph0645lm4h-b-datasheet-rev-c_183084ea6a1.pdf))
- High-performance SiSonic™ acoustic sensor
- High Signal to Noise ratio of 65dB
- Inbuilt Analog to Digital Converter
- I2S interface
- 1.3" IPS colour LCD (240x240px) (ST7789 driver)
- Four tactile buttons
- Mini HAT-format board
- **Fully-assembled**
- Compatible with all 40-pin header Raspberry Pi models
- [Pirate Audio software](https://github.com/pimoroni/pirate-audio)
- Dimensions: 31mm x 65mm x 9mm (approx, including screen and header)

**Software**

Pimoroni have put together a **clip recorder example application** to show you how to record audio files and play them back, as well as a convenient installer!

Here's how to get started:

1\. Set an SD card up with the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS.
2\. Connect to Wi-Fi or a wired network.
3\. Open a terminal and type the following:

*git clone https://github.com/pimoroni/pirate-audio*
*cd pirate-audio/clip-recorder*
*sudo ./install.sh*

4\. Reboot your Pi

(There's more info about what the installer does, what audio plugins Pimoroni has used and how to install them manually on [Github](https://github.com/pimoroni/pirate-audio/tree/master/clip-recorder)).

**Notes**

- The buttons are active low and connected to pins BCM 5, 6, 16, and 24.
- Unlike the other Pirate Audio boards, Dual Mic doesn't have any chunky components on the underside so it will work fine with a Pibow Coupé case without a booster header.
- Please note that Pirate Audio: Dual Mic doesn't have any audio output itself, so if you want to be able to listen back to what you've recorded you'll need to use a full-size Raspberry Pi with an audio jack, or some alternative audio arrangement, like a Bluetooth speaker or audio over HDMI. You could potentially also use one of our other Pirate Audio boards for audio output, via something like a HAT Hacker HAT).

## Images

- [Product image 1](https://core-electronics.com.au/media/catalog/product/p/i/pirate-audio-dual-mic-2_large.jpg)