The newest  (and lowest cost) member of our family of Text-to-Speech Shield kits - the RoboVoice Shield / Break-Out is available as either a blank PC board, OR as a complete kit (RoboVoice Shield / Breakout Deluxe - which also includes a 2" speaker kit)  from the DroidBuilder store!

We have had requests for kits that are usable on platforms other than the Arduino (at this point, all  of our kits are, our older PCB's may take some hacking to make it work). This is our first kit that was designed from the beginning as a break-out board not only in the familiar Arduino Shield footprint, but also features additional header locations on the board to allow easy usage with other microcontrollers (for example the Parallax BS2, Propeller, Rasberry PI, or whatever you feel skilled enough to wire/program). It also includes an on-board protyping area, where you could even put a PIC or ATTiny onto the board for a complete talking robot project if you wish!

Additional flexibility for use with multiple MCU families is provided by having its own 3.3v regulator and interface protection on the board so you may use it safely with 5v based MicroController devices. Simple programming examples will will be presented in our Tutorials page showing examples of how to program these kits to work with several different MCU's.

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