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This post covers a bit of an experiment I tried using both our bat listener kit and the cheeseboard (an ESP8266 development board). I wanted to make a unit that would send me an email whenever a bat was detected in my garden. This would be based upon the ESP8266 and monitor the output from the bat listener kit we sell. This was just a bit of fun, but might have some useful applications for remote monitoring... I basically just needed to connect the micro-controller output from the bat listener to a GPIO pin on the ESP8266. I needed to...

Adding a headphone output socket to the bat listener has been on my list of things to do for far too long!

It turns out it's quite simple to do. Here's how....