{
 "id": "on-board-acoustic-tone-detection-stays-reliable-down",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "On-board acoustic tone detection stays reliable down to ~1 ms, putting the practical ceiling near 1000 baud",
 "symptom": "No basis for choosing a symbol duration, so an acoustic link is either needlessly slow or silently unreliable.",
 "hw": [
  "samd21",
  "circuitplayground-express"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "circuitpython",
  "audiobusio"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64"
 ],
 "intent": "Find the shortest tone that can still be detected reliably across the CPX's own speaker-to-microphone path, to size a bit rate",
 "date": "2026-08-19",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "body": "",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check"
 ],
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}