I put together the breadboarded relay oscillator experiment from the excellent Make: Electronics book, using the parts from the Make: Electronics Components Pack 1, both of which are available from the Maker Shed. Since the power adapter in the kit has some barrel plugs I didn’t want to sever, I came up with a way to adapt it for use with the terminal screws on the supplied breadboard.
A few weeks ago, I picked up a LC-Style Guitar kit from the Maker Shed. I have always wanted this style of guitar, and the fact that it’s a kit made me want it even more. The fist step to assembling the guitar is to finish all the wood components, and that’s where I’m asking […]
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The Voice Shield is an analog audio shield for the Arduino. It allows you to easily add audio to your next project. The Voice Shield uses a unique and very user friendly way to access different sound bytes making it easy to build “talking” devices. It can work with words, complete sentences, or use it to add sound effects.
This is the shield John Park used in his audio sampler + joystick build video.
Would you like to play a game? I put together a VoiceShield, plonked it on an Arduino, recorded and manipulated my voice in Garage Band, uploaded the sound bytes to the VoiceShield, and wrote an Arduino sketch to control samples and delays from a 2-axis joystick.
The new Say It Module adds voice recognition to your robot or other project. It has functionality for 23 built-in pre-programmed or up to 32 user-defined commands. Use the robust serial protocol to access the Say It Module functions from other microcontrollers. Make a voice controlled Boe-Bot, Home Automation, or any voice activated project.
Once I’ve got the Voice Shield for Arduino put together I’m going to make a basic how-to video on triggering it with the joystick. Any suggestions on what I should demo? Such as, trigger sound bytes at different rates? Try to mix tiny samples one after another at different pitches to create harmonies? Henny Youngman soundboard? Please add suggestions in the comments.
