Monday, January 30, 2006
Look what I made, Mom!
This is a small toy… thing creatively named “music DJ”, apparently sold by Chupa Chups filled with some kind of sweets. I found two of them and had a look inside. The four buttons play these sounds.
Inside, there is the usual black blob and, fortunately, a resistor that controls the playback rate. I didn’t bend it yet because I don’t have a fitting potentiometer right now, but I installed an audio plug in the “antenna” and a switch. The silver disk in the middle could be turned to replay the sound played last and now the switch is wired to trigger that.
The samples sounded quite lo-res when played through the small speaker but connecting it to my audio mixer actually made them come out quite fat. (Actually, the mp3 above has the sounds played through a chorus filter and some bass amplification which I forgot to switch off.)
