Looking for a digital recreation of the classic analog volume unit (VU) meter? If you’ve got an Arduino, a few passive components, and a SSD1306 OLED, then [mircemk] might have the answer for you. As ...

Humans love visualising music, whether it’s in the form of an inscrutable equation drawing squiggles in Winamp, or a simple VU meter pulsing with the beat. This build from [mircemk] is of the latter ...

As someone operating the board, you are responsible for making sure our board does not “clip” the levels of whatever audio you are sending out. Here’s some tips/reminders about how to use them.

It is roughly the average signal level though not precisely. A VU meter is not recommended as the sole metering method for digital systems - it is too slow to catch transients which may overload the ...

VU is an abbreviation for volume unit. Thus, a VU meter is a device for measuring the level of sound intensity with audio equipment, such as amplifiers and tape recorders. Although the measurements ...