R5D4's sound system 1.1 - Audio FX Sound Board

Have ordered more components for R5's sound system.

The 'Sound Board' I've ordered is an alternative to the normal one used by most builders. But at half the price, and after I'd checked with our IT guru's on the UK R2 Builders Forum, I was assured it will do the same job.

It's not MP3:

  Quote: The sound board is designed to be simple: it does not have polyphonic ability, can't play MP3's (MP3 is patented and costs $ to license, so this board uses the similar but not-patented OGG format, there's tons of free converters that will turn an MP3 into OGG), isn't reprogrammable or scriptable, and you can't have any other kind of trigger type. However, there's a good chance the project you want to make will work great.

Audio tutorial link

Also bought some speaker cable, for the speakers (still to buy) but also for connecting up the sound card to the 12 Channel remote unit, which I had ordered, but then received an e-mail stating there were quality issues with the units so a refund was on it's way....

R5D4 Blog Update.....

It's been a busy few weeks, work & home life. Have only been able to do little bits on R5, been playing with mixtures for the smoke system, looking at how to install it and how to activate it remotely. Also been looking at a sound system to get him 'talking', linking this with the sound/smoke/motivator 'popping up'.

The sound project has sort of come out of the blue as I wasn't planning on fitting sound yet, due to funds, but my recent birthday has changed this :)

So am trying to get all this sorted out in time to hopefully have R5-D4 fully operational this year!!
And maybe even for some of the later events in the year!

Fire Extinguisher 1.3 - 'Bad Motivator'

Flashback date: 24th June 2014
So, this was my first idea for how to get the effect of R5's Bad Motivator blowing.

Then I thought, why stop there!?!?! So my next thought was to mimic the effect from the film, as best as it could be lol.

With idea 'B', I'd have extra vent points, positioned around the edge of R5's dome.

On activating the system, Mist would be ejected out of the Motivator pie hole and from around the edges of the dome, along with the sound effects of R5's motivator blowing up.

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Roll on a few months and I'm now starting work on how to 'pop-up' the Motivator & vent mist at the same time. The sound etc will follow.