I wish i knew about these sound stuff, when I was still running at shows. I am no longer able to physically able to do anything, including currently drive.?
I have a friend coming to make an offer on my entire collection, this morning. He goes to other shows and wants to display my circus modules.?
I will continue to follow your posts.?
Paul, I know we have talked before. Have you seen my Circus Modules?
Howard
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On Aug 22, 2022, at 12:34 AM, Jeffrey Reynolds <Cteno4@...> wrote:
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Paul,
Excellent idea! I just ordered one to play with. Lots of interesting station announcements and jingles would be fun with our Japanese modules for these.
I¡¯ve used these little DFPlayer MP3 cards for years to play random sounds or sounds from my wife¡¯s knit stuffed toys that she makes for the grand nieces and nephews. For a buck they are cheap and just keep 5v input to run. You can either have it play a single sound file on each button press or do a resistor cascade to fire different sounds from different switches. Just put mp3 files on the flash card. I may make one of your player buttons with one of these to play a string of different sounds each time it¡¯s pushed.
Little Bluetooth speakers are also fun. We sometimes put one behind our godzilla on the layout and fire it when someone walks by or leans in close to him. Quite fun to surprise folks and then play in odd ways with them when they try to figure out how it was triggered.
Thanks for the idea!
Cheers,
Jeff
On Aug 21, 2022, at 10:53 PM, PaulMmn <PaulMmn@...> wrote:
?My current solution to Roaming Fingers is push buttons. ?I use "Recordable Response Buzzers," similar to the "That was easy!" buttons from Staples. ?But these are programmed with diesel horns and steam whistles. ?They come in a set of four!
Buttons are so you can tell a youngster (or oldster) with roaming fingers that they may NOT touch the trains, but they can go over there and push the button. ?And point them to where the buttons are placed. ?Because most parents do a good job of ?policing the fingers, I have signs next to the buttons that say 'Please Push.'
I feel that diverting youngsters from what they can't do to what they can do is better than slapping fingers that get too close!
Only issue I have is that when little fingers approach the button, Mom or Dad (usually Mom) will ask "what does it do?" ??My answer is "Push it and find out!" ?Well, Mom pushes, hears the sound, then gets this "is that all it does" look, and asks little fingers, "do you want to push it, too?" ?Ruins the surprise for the youngster.
Now, I try to encourage the youngster to push it first, ("Let your child press it and find out!") so they get the surprise of the sound. I thnk parents are concerned that the button will cause permanent child damage!
You could also add sound effects to different scenes-- sounds for the welding shop; sounds for the rock crusher; sounds for the factory...
--Paul E Musselman
ps-- there are at least 2 varieties of buttons-- you definitely want 'recordable' or 'programmable' buttons!
You also want buttons that have an on/off switch. ?Otherwise, you'll have to remove the batteries between shows!
Some will record a single sound, others will record a selection of sounds, and play them one at a time when pressed. ?Some will connect to your PC to let you download the sounds.
