MSGEQ7 Seven Band Spectrum Analyzer Breakout Board Mono/Stereo (Stereo)

I have been looking for a quick way to make a light organ when I came upon a recomendation for this chip. When I found it on the board and ready to go, I grabbed one and got to work. I have great memories of an old buddy of mine in the US Army back in the early 1970's who, like me was a communicator. He had used his skills in electronics to build a light organ to get a bit more out of the wonderful music that was popular back then. His was not done very well but did appear to go alone with the beat of the music. Over the years I have dallied with different methods, even purchased a kit from Radio Shack that worked but not well and fell apart after a few weeks. This little gadget works great. It is so simple to set up with an Arduino to make a light organ that does the trick with very little work. I have plans to expand my initial trial with the chip using a few LED's. My plans involve using some MOSFETS to power some large LED'S to make a system about the size of a modern stereo speaker to sit atop my entertainment system. I know I will never get one that will match my great memory of my buddies in his trailer house on the outskirts of El Paso back in the early 70's because, well memories have a way of amplifying when they are great but I bet I will have one that produces better in sync music then his ever did.

I bought the mono version and it seems to be working well.

Had it working in under 30 min. Excellent product.

Got this, tried this, it works.Good quality construction, and the header pins are already attached, so I did not have to melt anything with my soldering iron.The capabilities of this little board far exceed my abilities to write adequate code that support it, so for now I am just using it with some very basic Arduino code for a simple light organ on an 8x60 aRGB LED matirx.