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microcontrollers
There's a little interactive art project I want to make- I want to take an existing phone, and have each of the number keys trigger a sample (or mp3, or whatever, quality isn't super important) through the receiver's speaker. If possible, I think it'd also be fun to put a proximity sensor on the ringer so that it rings when someone approaches it. I know this should be do-able with a microcontroller, but I have no experience with them and very little programming experience (though I'm working my way through MAX/MSP, which, while not a true programming language, can communicate with ardunios.)
Any advice or online resources from you Makers?
Any advice or online resources from you Makers?
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Although if you can have a wire going back to a laptop....
Hook a shift register up to the buttions of the phone and use that to send serial info back to a laptop running max/msp. Then MAX/MSP sends sound back to the receiver. You'll probably want to use an ethernet cord so that you have enough wires.
Oh, and for the motion sensor- these $8 gizmos are great for answering the question "has anything moved in the last few seconds", which should be enought for this project http://parallax.com/Store/Sensors/ObjectDetection/tabid/176/CategoryID/51/List/0/Level/a/ProductID/83/Default.aspx