I never thought to solder pin headers while in a breadboard. That makes so much sense. I always have had trouble getting them straight, but putting them in a breadboard while soldering solves this. Thanks for the video, and the little tip I learned from it. I also enjoyed the explanation of the code, very clear and understandable.
+Wander Glad you liked it. Actually, I used the breadboard to hold the pins in place in the X and Y directions but I didn't have the pins pushed all the way into the breadboard holes. I was afraid, possibly needlessly, of damaging the breadboard from the heat (anyone here know if I should have been concerned?). As a result, mine aren't as straight as I'd like them either.
RimstarOrg I always press them all the way into the breadboard. It makes sure they are straight and fully seated to the module your adding the pins to. I have not damaged any of my breadboards. Maybe if its a cheap one from China then I would not, but I only do it with my name brand breadboards. I guess if the plastic looks cheap then be carefull. Your not going to hurt the metal leads in the breadboard but my melt the plastic.
As a fellow electronics and Halloween enthusiast, I enjoyed your video tutorial, but it triggered a PTSD episode for me and I had to share this story: Back in 2012 or so, I had bad luck with Adafruit's sound board, which later on they admitted in fact that there was a defect that caused the very problem I complained about; in fact they stopped selling them because they needed to reengineer the board. Well, I guess they're back now. As for me, it was too late, it was past the warranty (lesson learned: always test the components) I didn't use them the year I ordered them, instead I waited until next year and that was a mistake; however, as a customer that had been doing extensive business with them (hundreds of dollars every year over the course of several years) I felt like they could have been a little nicer to me given the fact that they sold me those defective boards, instead they said that customers are always blowing up stuff and claiming it was defective, and it got to the point that they said they didn't want to be accused of grifting and before I could respond, Mike closed conversation so I couldn't respond... that infuriated me... and now I am very reluctant to purchase from them, I try to get all my stuff from Digikey, Mouser, Jameco, Amazon, etc. What happened to me was that I plugged the board into my PC to transfer the audio file... I didn't have anything else connected. I noticed that the class-D Amp overheated and smoke was coming off the board, then before I could react the USB went into overcurrent protection and the PC spontaneously restarted. Luckily the PC was fine. What I ended up doing was desoldering the SMD amps off the boards (all of the soundboards I ordered had the same problem) and then I connected the L and R lineouts to an offboard amplifier. I found some MP3 players on Amazon DY-SV8F 8M Flash, and I can get 2 of the players for $13, it same functions as Adafruit's because it's the same chip, but cheaper... you can also get larger capacity for bigger files, like one with a SD Flash card, but Halloween props have pretty small files... unless you're doing a show with a long song and dance routine.
Haha lots of fun, great project. I like how the servo movement routines can sync to speech patterns with simple coding and the battery bay mod is very effective.
+slider2732 Thanks. The servo/speech syncing was a little tricky because it takes some time for the speech to begin and to subsequently get to the code where the servo movements are done. With the phrase "Hi Gang", I should have had to do a delay() while the word "Hi" was being spoken, but by the time I got to the servo code it was already time to partially close the mouth for the space between the two words (I didn't mention it in the video but it's mentioned in the code.)
Thanks for posting this video and the sketch. They are very helpful! However, I did not see the code for setting the volume in your sketch. Do you (or anyone reading this comment) have the code to set the volume at one specific level? Thanks again!
How can I code this with multiply buttons . that is , Button 1 . sets off sound file xxxxxxxxOGG while i have a programable rgb led go to the sound?? thank you
In your parts list for the Audio FX board, you will find that that board is "on hold" at this time. Here is a replacement: www.adafruit.com/products/2341
Thanks for pointing this out. Looking at their page I've decided to leave my links as they are for now and then have people go to the replacement from that page. That way they'll know what's up with it. I really appreciate your point this out, I don't know when I'd have found out otherwise.
9 лет назад
could you make AI with voice with arduino or raspberry pi you think>? and see if google speech aswell so it can talk answell as hear from a mic?
+Jay Mee An Arduino would be too slow and has too little memory for much of an AI. A raspberry pi would be better. That's something I've always wanted to play with - so much interesting tech in one project.
9 лет назад
use a website to do the processing and just use its replies from the site as an output
I’m gonna use a 1sd1820 module For the voice box that I making for my woody doll it’s going to be made out of wood but there are some buttons on there and I am a little worried that it won’t work with a pull string what can I do?
In that case, a quick search turned up this video ruclips.net/video/ckq_CP3ra7g/видео.html where they connect and Arduino to it. You could build some sort of lever mechanism where the strings pull on lever arms. When pulled, the levers would close switches. The switches would be connected to the Arduino. The Arduino would do whatever code is necessary (like in the video) to tell the ISD1820 to play a recording or to record. I don't know enough about the ISD1820 to tell if the same could be done without the Arduino.
Any ideas why I can't get mine past the 'if (!sfx.reset())' of the demo code? I quadruple checked the connections and have them exactly like they do on the Adafuit demo. If I by pass that it will not play or list the files. Basically nothing works.
I guess you mean Adafruit's demo code because I don't do a sfx.reset in the setup function. I do recall a problem with the sfx.reset call and mine worked without it so I skipped it. I don't recall exactly what the problem was, whether or not it was just stopping there like yours. You can see my code here rimstar.org/science_electronics_projects/arduino_adafruit_audiofx_soundboard_skull_scareduino.htm. On Adafruit's page for this version of the board that has the amplifier (www.adafruit.com/products/2217) they say they've discontinued it until they can figure out a problem with the amplifier. But I don't know how the problem they're talking about manifested itself, whether it was related due the reset problem or not.
Do you mean without using soundLength[] will it work? Yes, it will work without it. The reason I use it is that I want to know how long to open the jaw for in order to make it look like the skull is speaking.
I want to build a full size plastic skeleton and have it rigged like those small hand toys where you push the bottom up and the figure goes limp. But instead of going limp it stays limp in default and jumps up and tightens the elastic and stands full size I can do this with a pail and a well sealed piston buried in the ground under it. A compressor fills the bucket with air and it goes limp again. When it's triggered the blast of air would be enough to scare someone. Then a glow in the dark skeleton jumps up. Could build a few of these in sequence all running on movement triggers and pneumatic valves. what fun. YT doesn't pass on responses to my comments anymore.
Replace that battery pack with a single LiPo battery. You can get them for a couple bucks. They top off around 4.2V. A simple charger is cheap too. It's way better for the environment than throwaway batteries, and the form factor is much better to put in projects. You'll never go back!
You could have just connected the speaker modules power to the third batteries pos side, and the other components through all four batteries. Just saying
+Jason Walker Can you do that? I've always thought that would discharge the batteries unevenly. That was always my suspicion anyway. Have you done it or seen it done?
RimstarOrg It would have slightly more current through the first three batteries but i thought this was a Halloween gadget. And yes you can design your circuit this way. just like how an op-amp uses a dual rail supplie to output a pos or neg bias.
I never thought to solder pin headers while in a breadboard. That makes so much sense. I always have had trouble getting them straight, but putting them in a breadboard while soldering solves this. Thanks for the video, and the little tip I learned from it. I also enjoyed the explanation of the code, very clear and understandable.
+Wander Glad you liked it. Actually, I used the breadboard to hold the pins in place in the X and Y directions but I didn't have the pins pushed all the way into the breadboard holes. I was afraid, possibly needlessly, of damaging the breadboard from the heat (anyone here know if I should have been concerned?). As a result, mine aren't as straight as I'd like them either.
RimstarOrg I always press them all the way into the breadboard. It makes sure they are straight and fully seated to the module your adding the pins to. I have not damaged any of my breadboards. Maybe if its a cheap one from China then I would not, but I only do it with my name brand breadboards. I guess if the plastic looks cheap then be carefull. Your not going to hurt the metal leads in the breadboard but my melt the plastic.
+Jason Walker Thanks! I'll do that from now on then.
As a fellow electronics and Halloween enthusiast, I enjoyed your video tutorial, but it triggered a PTSD episode for me and I had to share this story:
Back in 2012 or so, I had bad luck with Adafruit's sound board, which later on they admitted in fact that there was a defect that caused the very problem I complained about; in fact they stopped selling them because they needed to reengineer the board. Well, I guess they're back now.
As for me, it was too late, it was past the warranty (lesson learned: always test the components) I didn't use them the year I ordered them, instead I waited until next year and that was a mistake; however, as a customer that had been doing extensive business with them (hundreds of dollars every year over the course of several years) I felt like they could have been a little nicer to me given the fact that they sold me those defective boards, instead they said that customers are always blowing up stuff and claiming it was defective, and it got to the point that they said they didn't want to be accused of grifting and before I could respond, Mike closed conversation so I couldn't respond... that infuriated me... and now I am very reluctant to purchase from them, I try to get all my stuff from Digikey, Mouser, Jameco, Amazon, etc.
What happened to me was that I plugged the board into my PC to transfer the audio file... I didn't have anything else connected. I noticed that the class-D Amp overheated and smoke was coming off the board, then before I could react the USB went into overcurrent protection and the PC spontaneously restarted. Luckily the PC was fine. What I ended up doing was desoldering the SMD amps off the boards (all of the soundboards I ordered had the same problem) and then I connected the L and R lineouts to an offboard amplifier.
I found some MP3 players on Amazon DY-SV8F 8M Flash, and I can get 2 of the players for $13, it same functions as Adafruit's because it's the same chip, but cheaper... you can also get larger capacity for bigger files, like one with a SD Flash card, but Halloween props have pretty small files... unless you're doing a show with a long song and dance routine.
Nice video.
+Eugene Khutoryansky Thanks.
Haha lots of fun, great project. I like how the servo movement routines can sync to speech patterns with simple coding and the battery bay mod is very effective.
+slider2732 Thanks. The servo/speech syncing was a little tricky because it takes some time for the speech to begin and to subsequently get to the code where the servo movements are done. With the phrase "Hi Gang", I should have had to do a delay() while the word "Hi" was being spoken, but by the time I got to the servo code it was already time to partially close the mouth for the space between the two words (I didn't mention it in the video but it's mentioned in the code.)
I really like the update this year. Thanks this will come in handy.
+Todd Harrison Glad to hear it, thanks. Yeah, Adafruit has a lot of neat boards to play with.
Nice video overall! (audio works well on this one)
Nice servitor, glory at Omnisaia!
Is there a way to code the ecto1 siren with wind up and wind down?
Thanks for posting this video and the sketch. They are very helpful! However, I did not see the code for setting the volume in your sketch. Do you (or anyone reading this comment) have the code to set the volume at one specific level? Thanks again!
whoa that was awesome.....
+Tom Cote (Food Snot Food Reviews) Thanks Tom.
Is there some way to get this board to light up an 8mm LED when playing a sound file, All on its own.
How can I code this with multiply buttons . that is , Button 1 . sets off sound file xxxxxxxxOGG while i have a programable rgb led go to the sound??
thank you
In your parts list for the Audio FX board, you will find that that board is "on hold" at this time.
Here is a replacement: www.adafruit.com/products/2341
Thanks for pointing this out. Looking at their page I've decided to leave my links as they are for now and then have people go to the replacement from that page. That way they'll know what's up with it. I really appreciate your point this out, I don't know when I'd have found out otherwise.
could you make AI with voice with arduino or raspberry pi you think>? and see if google speech aswell so it can talk answell as hear from a mic?
+Jay Mee An Arduino would be too slow and has too little memory for much of an AI. A raspberry pi would be better. That's something I've always wanted to play with - so much interesting tech in one project.
use a website to do the processing and just use its replies from the site as an output
I’m gonna use a 1sd1820 module For the voice box that I making for my woody doll it’s going to be made out of wood but there are some buttons on there and I am a little worried that it won’t work with a pull string what can I do?
I'm not sure what you mean by a pull string and buttons. Are you trying to use the pull string to activate the buttons?
RimstarOrg No I just want to use a pull string instead of buttons
In that case, a quick search turned up this video ruclips.net/video/ckq_CP3ra7g/видео.html where they connect and Arduino to it. You could build some sort of lever mechanism where the strings pull on lever arms. When pulled, the levers would close switches. The switches would be connected to the Arduino. The Arduino would do whatever code is necessary (like in the video) to tell the ISD1820 to play a recording or to record. I don't know enough about the ISD1820 to tell if the same could be done without the Arduino.
This is what I need for my model of Portal Device !!! Thx
+Sha Man My pleasure. Sounds like an awesome project!
Any ideas why I can't get mine past the 'if (!sfx.reset())' of the demo code? I quadruple checked the connections and have them exactly like they do on the Adafuit demo. If I by pass that it will not play or list the files. Basically nothing works.
I guess you mean Adafruit's demo code because I don't do a sfx.reset in the setup function. I do recall a problem with the sfx.reset call and mine worked without it so I skipped it. I don't recall exactly what the problem was, whether or not it was just stopping there like yours. You can see my code here rimstar.org/science_electronics_projects/arduino_adafruit_audiofx_soundboard_skull_scareduino.htm.
On Adafruit's page for this version of the board that has the amplifier (www.adafruit.com/products/2217) they say they've discontinued it until they can figure out a problem with the amplifier. But I don't know how the problem they're talking about manifested itself, whether it was related due the reset problem or not.
The links in the end are reversed for the arduino and bottle
+01) up to 6min Thanks! They're fixed now.
+RimstarOrg Glad i could help!
Hi, without the sound file arrays , will it work ? What is it used for ?? int soundLength[NUM_SOUNDS] = { 1240, 510, 1300 , 1600, 190 };
Do you mean without using soundLength[] will it work? Yes, it will work without it. The reason I use it is that I want to know how long to open the jaw for in order to make it look like the skull is speaking.
I want to build a full size plastic skeleton and have it rigged like those small hand toys where you push the bottom up and the figure goes limp. But instead of going limp it stays limp in default and jumps up and tightens the elastic and stands full size I can do this with a pail and a well sealed piston buried in the ground under it. A compressor fills the bucket with air and it goes limp again. When it's triggered the blast of air would be enough to scare someone. Then a glow in the dark skeleton jumps up. Could build a few of these in sequence all running on movement triggers and pneumatic valves. what fun.
YT doesn't pass on responses to my comments anymore.
+Chuffered FUoogle Sounds like fun! Halloween must be great fun at your place.
Cool! Kind of like DIY animatronics :D
+Blast Thanks! Yeah, they're primitive animatronics but fun to do.
the 'I'll be back' sf sounds like the one from terminator.
+Bryle Ipup It's actually my own impersonation, modified using free sound editing software Audacity, but I did get it pretty close.
can you play a sound without the amp?
+Ian sberg You can play to headphones, powered speakers or an amp.
thanks mr. skeletal
+Hakkı Oktay :)
Replace that battery pack with a single LiPo battery. You can get them for a couple bucks. They top off around 4.2V. A simple charger is cheap too. It's way better for the environment than throwaway batteries, and the form factor is much better to put in projects. You'll never go back!
+USWaterRockets No doubt you're right. My AA battery collection is getting pretty large. I'll pick up some LiPo's the next time I order something.
Cool! You will love them. Keep up the work on the videos. You are really presenting some cool stuff that should bring people into the STEM field!
$30 ouch
where are the Chinese clones?
Interesting
+Julio Becker Glad you like it.
I have just had a flashback
You could have just connected the speaker modules power to the third batteries pos side, and the other components through all four batteries. Just saying
+Jason Walker Can you do that? I've always thought that would discharge the batteries unevenly. That was always my suspicion anyway. Have you done it or seen it done?
RimstarOrg It would have slightly more current through the first three batteries but i thought this was a Halloween gadget. And yes you can design your circuit this way. just like how an op-amp uses a dual rail supplie to output a pos or neg bias.