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Soundgin - sound chip in a PIC

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This looks neat - The Soundgin is a serially controlled Sound Synthesizer in a PIC. It can produce complex sound effects, synthesizer style music and English speech. Thanks Kevin - Link.

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Posted by: samurai1200 on June 28, 2007 at 10:09 AM

Speech?! Wasn't Parallax just working on something like this? And wasn't it going to cost a grip? Looks like it's just a nicely-pre-programmed Microchip PIC18F1320. This sounds pretty great... especially for $25.

Although it makes me think... if its just a pre-programmed PIC18F1320, if we had the firmware source, we could make our own Soundgin for much less than $25... I'm seeing $2.69 at Newark.

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Posted by: Stokes on June 28, 2007 at 11:18 AM

Of course you could make it cheaper -- if you only count the cost of materials. Do not discount the value of the content. A couple hundred pieces of blank paper will cost you less than a buck, but a novel will still cost you $10. The Soundgin's creator needs to eat, too, not just the Microchip board of directors.

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Posted by: samurai1200 on June 28, 2007 at 3:06 PM

Well of course... but isn't that sort of the point of this site? Making things that function just as well as retail products, only cheaper?

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Posted by: krgroce on June 28, 2007 at 4:25 PM

Amen Stokes I know the man behind this company and he is not out to turn a major profit. He also is the guy who makes the OOPIC line of products :)

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