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I'm making a scarecrow for our scarecrow festival and what I would really like to do is have a button that a passerby can press and then a song plays. So I'd need weatherproof speaker and remote/button/something, and something that would just play one song. Is there anything off the shelf that would do this? Looking at my #emfcamp peeps because this would probably be up their alley. (bonus points if I can attach fairy or disco lights to the button that come on too)
Ohai, nice to meet you.
Having something that plays a song when a button is pressed is super easy.
The simplest solution would be a board like this:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2341
If you want to also light up something, maybe check out neopixel based products.
In this case i would use an esp32 or something similar with a little waveshield.
Have fun tinkering!
PS: join your local hackspace!
@nominally ooooooooooooh. I could definitely weatherproof one of those :O thanks for the idea!!
@nominally perfect, I got a bigger one off Amazon (boo, but hey) and it’s perfect. Thanks!!!
A simple, but cheap option could be one of those recordable birthday cards.
Opening the card plays the recording, so maybe you could swap that for a latched switch somehow?
@thomas I looked at all of that and then the button press voice recorder soft toy speaker came in the post and it’s crappy but works!!
@CatherineFlick Wait, wait, back up. Scarecrow festival.
@d yes! My village does one most years. Houses make scarecrows, there’s a fete, a beer festival at the cricket ground, and the pubs do special events
