Need help with sound and light project

[S. A. H.]

Hello,

 

Thank you in advance for helping me with this problem that I have.

 

What I would want to achieve is the following:

• When a button is pressed a sound is played.
  • A lighting effect is triggered at sound activation
    • The lighting effect (brightness/flashing) is controlled by the sound event triggered.

 

I have already constructed and implemented HappyTroopers sound gloves as seen below with great success.

 

So in short when I press one of the buttons, I want it to be able to trigger a LED light strip and react to the sound that is being played. Think as Palpatine went to force electrocute Mace Windu and said, "Unlimited Poowwweeerrrrrr" The light effect I would want is a little growing flash at the beginning of the line, and then flashing/strobing lighting as it were with the rest of the line.

 

I'm thinking that I would need an Adrino set up but have no experience with that side of things to be able to be interfaced with the sound and lights.

I'm not sure if this is more of a Droid section I should reach out to but any help and direction would be most helpful.

 

This will be used for a future Star Wars build I'm thinking of but want to use it in my current Cosplay. If interested you can see it on Instagram @pikachuinapikachu

 

This is the way.

 

 

[themaninthesuitcase[Admin]]

Given you want to trigger lights as well as sound then a simple audio trigger board it off the table.

 

I would probably start with an Arduino, I tend to use a Nano as they are small and cheap but there are new better options really these days for not a lot more.

 

Audio has a few options.  Items to consider are the DFPlayer Mini, Adafruit and Sparkfun also have some options.  The DFPlayer is small cheap, but the one I have is a clone (so even cheaper) but it seems to have some issues and I want to try a real one when I can get hold of one.

 

Lighting wise Neopixels (or the various products that use the WS2812 LEDs) are a solid pick.  You can do all sorts of stuff like fades, streaks, pick individual pixels.  Very powerful, but you do need to think through what you want to happen and how that will need to be coded to achieve that.