SteveD

I couldn't get the search to work for the site, but if you google: site:whitearmor.net adafruit You'll find some good info like: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/28404-dd-e11-build/page-2

------------ Photo 1, speakers and SFX board Photo 2 & 3, show speaker in 1 1/4 PVC blaster tube Photo 4, SFX board powered from standard phone charging battery pack.

I find the volume right at the acceptable level. My wife assures me that it's "quite loud enough" from the other room. (pew pew pew... pew pew is getting old for her) Since this post was to show what is available "out of the box" with minimal electronic work I find the Adafruit audio FX sound board 2x2w Audio FX sound board acceptable. The nice part about this board is that you can build on it and not scrap it as your needs / electronic skills improve. You can add arduino control or a larger Amp later if you want. You can buy the board without the on board amp in the 2mb and 16 mb versions and add a more powerful amp yourself if you're up to it. https://www.adafruit.com/products/2342 https://www.adafruit.com/products/987

I received the SFX board and whaaa whaaa didn't work. So a quick post to Adafruit and new one was on the way. So test one complete, Adafruit customer service gets 5 stars. Received the new card plugged it into my computer and it showed up as a USB drive. Looked at the online manual, added some sound files. Named them so they would sequence off pin 5 (picked 5 at random). Full Blaster Blaster Blaster Blaster Blaster Blaster Blaster Blaster Empty Pin 1 had a single sound file for stun. Unplugged the card from the computer, connected the speakers (soldering required), plugged in a USB phone charging battery pack, and started tapping the pins 1 and 5 with a jumper wire. Worked great! It is taking longer to type this post than it did to get the card up and running. Pulling the trigger will sequence through the 10 files called by pin 5 (one per trigger pull) and the stun would be called by a separate button connected to pin 1. Volume of the card is good when supplied with 5V and 4 ohm speakers. If you want a simple sound card for you're blaster, I think this is a good way to go. A correction to my first post, the card will hold more then 11 sound files. It has 11 separate pins that can be used to call sound files. As you can see in the example above I have ten sound files on pin 5 alone. I'll post up some pictures over the week end.

I've build a few electronic projects before. ------------

Going to give this a try, Adafruit Audio FX Sound Board + 2x2W Amp - WAV/OGG Trigger -16MBhttps://www.adafruit.com/products/2217 I have the one with 16 MB on order but I don't think that much memory will be need the 2 MB version should be OK. Here's what I like about it. Built in AMP NO coding, just upload the sound files via USB Holds up to 11 sound files Sounds can be activated by simply taking a numbered pin to ground. Arduino not required, but can be controlled by an Arduino if you desire. Small This should be able to build a simple stand alone blaster sound system. Later if you want to add lights you can add the Arduino.