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Hi all,
I've just taken delivery of a 50 second sound player from electronics123.
Initial assessment was that the sound was poor quality but after downloading the software which allows you to store your own samples on the board via USB, I reconsidered and can state that this unit is well worth the $11 I paid.
The unit comes mounted on white plastic card with a small, poor quality speaker placed face downwards and 3xAG10 batteries on a separate board. This battery set can easily be replaced by a normal 3xAA battery pack or a 5V supply such as the one from DealExtreme (DealExtreme: $4.90 PSP AC Adapter)
Having downloaded my sound sample choosing the high quality option the software offers you I was quite pleased with the quality even with the crappy speaker supplied. After I cut off the speaker and linked it to a cheap Practice Guitar Amp, the quality was more than good enough for prop use.
Converting this to being prop triggered will be easy as the activating switch is on 2 wires - simply chop the switch off and wire onto your prop relay contacts instead. I'll also be trying to work this with a picaxe using a common ground and seeing if I can trigger it off a normal Picaxe output.
This unit is brilliant for the money - especially if you can't find a modifiable MP3 player.
http://www.electronics123.com/s.nl/i...c=8&category=2
I'm just assembling one of their sound to light kits for use as a lightning machine and will report on that as well.
I've just taken delivery of a 50 second sound player from electronics123.
Initial assessment was that the sound was poor quality but after downloading the software which allows you to store your own samples on the board via USB, I reconsidered and can state that this unit is well worth the $11 I paid.
The unit comes mounted on white plastic card with a small, poor quality speaker placed face downwards and 3xAG10 batteries on a separate board. This battery set can easily be replaced by a normal 3xAA battery pack or a 5V supply such as the one from DealExtreme (DealExtreme: $4.90 PSP AC Adapter)
Having downloaded my sound sample choosing the high quality option the software offers you I was quite pleased with the quality even with the crappy speaker supplied. After I cut off the speaker and linked it to a cheap Practice Guitar Amp, the quality was more than good enough for prop use.
Converting this to being prop triggered will be easy as the activating switch is on 2 wires - simply chop the switch off and wire onto your prop relay contacts instead. I'll also be trying to work this with a picaxe using a common ground and seeing if I can trigger it off a normal Picaxe output.
This unit is brilliant for the money - especially if you can't find a modifiable MP3 player.
http://www.electronics123.com/s.nl/i...c=8&category=2
I'm just assembling one of their sound to light kits for use as a lightning machine and will report on that as well.