Is there any way to have the mic act as a trigger to do something when it detects a sound/volume level? or some way of getting data like morse code or a dial up modem?

huh.. good question.. i dont really know.. though ill try to see whats possible..

SmileBASIC isn't good anough to use it

ok so looked into and making a noise detector could actually be possible. -btw that is the fake Jacob so dont listen to him- though the coding might be hard.. if you have a SmileBasicSource account (or not) you should go look there because i think theres a mic tutorial.

You can use MICDATA and check what returns the mic. If MICDATA returns something -> Action. You could also use MICSAVE if you want to make a more detailed check of the mic.

I've looked on SBS and I did find a few useful tutorials but I've never really used the mic before so I'm still a bit lost. Also I used MICDATA but it always gives a value that I don't understand. Any tips?