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Mini Active Buzzer

Works as a standard active buzzer or you can apply PWM to play tiny, bleepy tunes. Ahoy!

Connect a voltage (4-8v) to the pins to make Dumb Noise (tm) or use a PWM from a microcontroller to change the tones - check out this Tom's Hardware article for how to play tunes using a Raspberry Pi Pico!

It's got sturdy, labelled pins for connecting to jumper jerky or poking into a breadboard. The specs list the minimum voltage as 4V, but we found it worked fine with 3.3V from a microcontroller. Note that you need to connect it up with the right polarity for it to make noise, even if you're planning on going down the PWM route.

Rated Voltage(V) 6
Voltage Range (V) 4~8
Rated Current (mA) ≤32
Sound Output (dB) ≥85
Resonant Frequency (Hz) 2300±300
Operating Temp (°C) -20~+45
Storage Temp (°C) -20~+60
Weight (g) 2
Diameter of buzzer 12mm
Pin spacing 8mm

Why not try it with Yukon?

Looking for a controller for your project? Yukon is a high-power modular robotics and engineering platform, built around RP2040 and designed to drive the most ambitious robots, props and devices.

Yukon is a standalone controller that can be equipped with up to six interchangeable modules capable of driving high-powered hardware - this is made possible by the unique pin capabilities of Raspberry Pi's multitalented RP2040 chip. This flexibility means you can drive many unique combinations of motors, servos, steppers, speakers, LED strips and more, all from a single Yukon host!

3 customer reviews

2 years ago
Works perfectly as advertised, good documentation and a nice set of example programs. I can take it from there. I have been thinking of but not actually buying it for literally years - the recent sale made me a buyer. Just the thing to amuse the piano-playing members of my family.
by Peter about Piano HAT via REVIEWS.io
5 years ago
Good fun to tinker with. Well built and of the highest quality.
by Daniel about Piano HAT via REVIEWS.io
9 years ago
Recently purchased one of these piano hat boards for my raspberry pi, as usual the service from Pimoroni was excellent and the board is of a really good quality. It's nicely laid out and the touch pads are a decent size. The board looks very classy with the black background and gold lettering and the software to go with it makes using the board very easy. Although it's laid out as a piano it could be used for anything which requires 16 capacitive touch pads and leds.
by Steve about Piano HAT via REVIEWS.io

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