Help! I want to build a box that will play random sounds!

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as;ldfkj

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I was wondering if someone can help me out here.

I want to build a circuit that will play ramdom sounds that I can put
onto a chip from my pc.

I want a simple push button control....something like one of those
singing fish but for a different purpose.

I would like to have say 10 or more sound clips that it could play
randomly with the push of a button.
Or if possible and not to complicated multiple buttons for different
clips.

Can someone point me in the right direction here...book, website,
company that sells a kit?
What kind of a chip is normally used to hold the sounds for something
like this...how would I program it?

Looking for a way to do this and keep it small and not really
expensive.
I figure if that make greeting cards that play music and the singing
fish is not that expensive then I should be abe to make something like
this relatively small and cheap.


Thanks for any help!!
 
as;ldfkj wrote:

I was wondering if someone can help me out here.

I want to build a circuit that will play ramdom sounds that I can put
onto a chip from my pc.

I want a simple push button control....something like one of those
singing fish but for a different purpose.

I would like to have say 10 or more sound clips that it could play
randomly with the push of a button.
Or if possible and not to complicated multiple buttons for different
clips.

Can someone point me in the right direction here...book, website,
company that sells a kit?
What kind of a chip is normally used to hold the sounds for something
like this...how would I program it?

Looking for a way to do this and keep it small and not really
expensive.
I figure if that make greeting cards that play music and the singing
fish is not that expensive then I should be abe to make something like
this relatively small and cheap.
Click to expand...
USB stick with mp3 player?


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personal page: http://johnbokma.com/
Experienced programmer available: http://castleamber.com/
Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html
 
On 21 Apr 2005 00:14:04 GMT, John Bokma <postmaster@castleamber.com>
wrote:

as;ldfkj wrote:

I was wondering if someone can help me out here.

I want to build a circuit that will play ramdom sounds that I can put
onto a chip from my pc.

I want a simple push button control....something like one of those
singing fish but for a different purpose.

I would like to have say 10 or more sound clips that it could play
randomly with the push of a button.
Or if possible and not to complicated multiple buttons for different
clips.

Can someone point me in the right direction here...book, website,
company that sells a kit?
What kind of a chip is normally used to hold the sounds for something
like this...how would I program it?

Looking for a way to do this and keep it small and not really
expensive.
I figure if that make greeting cards that play music and the singing
fish is not that expensive then I should be abe to make something like
this relatively small and cheap.

USB stick with mp3 player?
Click to expand...
No, this has to be standalone and cheap. I was thinking something that
can be made for less then $15
I don't want it to be re-programmable. One time setup and that is all.
I have a few projects I want to put into my gameroom and have certain
sounds play if a lever is pushed or a button is pressed.

Is something like this possible in the price range I mention?
 
as;ldfkj wrote:

On 21 Apr 2005 00:14:04 GMT, John Bokma <postmaster@castleamber.com
wrote:

as;ldfkj wrote:

I was wondering if someone can help me out here.

I want to build a circuit that will play ramdom sounds that I can
put
onto a chip from my pc.

I want a simple push button control....something like one of those
singing fish but for a different purpose.

I would like to have say 10 or more sound clips that it could play
randomly with the push of a button.
Or if possible and not to complicated multiple buttons for different
clips.

Can someone point me in the right direction here...book, website,
company that sells a kit?
What kind of a chip is normally used to hold the sounds for
something
like this...how would I program it?

Looking for a way to do this and keep it small and not really
expensive.
I figure if that make greeting cards that play music and the singing
fish is not that expensive then I should be abe to make something
like
this relatively small and cheap.

USB stick with mp3 player?

No, this has to be standalone and cheap.
Click to expand...
It is standalone.

I was thinking something that
can be made for less then $15
Click to expand...
http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail.asp?dpno=445902
$24.88

And I am sure that looking at e-bay will give you a price under the 15
USD.

<http://www.google.com/search?q=sound%20recorder%20chip> gives:

http://www.scary-terry.com/dsr/dsr.htm
http://www.mnsi.net/~boucher/Soundplayer.html
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fwinkler/work03/isd.html


I don't want it to be re-programmable. One time setup and that is all.
I have a few projects I want to put into my gameroom and have certain
sounds play if a lever is pushed or a button is pressed.

Is something like this possible in the price range I mention?
Click to expand...
I am afraid that making yourself such a device will get you less quality
for more or same amount of money.

--
John MexIT: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/
personal page: http://johnbokma.com/
Experienced programmer available: http://castleamber.com/
Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html
 
Bob wrote:
Radio Shack used to sell a voice recorder chip. It was cheap and I think it
will do what you want. They didn't make the chip, so you should still be
able to find it (or something similar).

As I recall, it had an analog input and an analog output, The storage was
on-chip.

Bob
Click to expand...
The WINBOND chips are probably what you are talking about. You can still
get them at www.futurlec.com, in DIP.

http://www.futurlec.com/ICSFOthers.shtml

the ISD1110P gives you 10 seconds of recording time.

Regards,
Bob Monsen
 
And I am sure that looking at e-bay will give you a price under the 15
USD.

http://www.google.com/search?q=sound%20recorder%20chip> gives:

http://www.scary-terry.com/dsr/dsr.htm
http://www.mnsi.net/~boucher/Soundplayer.html
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/fwinkler/work03/isd.html
Click to expand...

The scary-terry link above is more what I am looking for.
With one possible advancement ....multiple sounds on 1 chip that will
play at random or in sequence with multiple button pushes.


I don't want it to be re-programmable. One time setup and that is all.
I have a few projects I want to put into my gameroom and have certain
sounds play if a lever is pushed or a button is pressed.

Is something like this possible in the price range I mention?

I am afraid that making yourself such a device will get you less quality
for more or same amount of money.
Click to expand...
Your probably right but I would still like to try and make it myself.
I don't need cd quality sound for what I am doing.

Anyway, I will give it a shot.

Thanks for the help.
 
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