Voice Shield + joystick = ? suggestions wanted

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By John Edgar Park
Posted 2010/04/17 @ 3:45 pm
Category Arduino, Electronics, General

I just got a Voice Shield kit for Arduino (analog audio shield that allows you to record and play audio sound bytes), along with a 2-axis joystick (fancy analog interface to two potentiometers).

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Once I’ve got the shield 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.

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6 Responses to Voice Shield + joystick = ? suggestions wanted

sburlappp on April 17th, 2010 at 5:25 pm said:

You could make a remote control for other people.

“Hey you, go left!”

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- John Park on April 17th, 2010 at 10:14 pm said:
  
  Haha, that’s a fun idea, thanks.
  
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Jarett on April 18th, 2010 at 11:06 am said:

You should make a talking Simon game: it speaks a list of directions, then you have to copy it with the joystick.

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- John Park on April 18th, 2010 at 11:28 am said:
  
  I like that one too, thanks. One thing I’m curious about is how to highlight the fact that it’s an analog joystick, not simply a four or eight position switch…
  
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Brick Moon on April 18th, 2010 at 12:44 pm said:

and this may be a bit more than you had in mind, but how about a device that takes audio samples and modulates a mix of the speed, timbre and/or pitch, filtering, or distortion with the different axes of the joystick? You’d probably need to use an additional board of some sort for this?

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- John Park on April 18th, 2010 at 4:07 pm said:
  
  I’d love to head in that direction with it. Probably more than I’ll bite off right now, I think the chip on the Voice Shield is tuned for direct playback, not messing with the output, but maybe another board, like you suggested would be fun.
  
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