frankcottnj
USA
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I have the BP talk board that controls the servo by sound. If I plug a headset male plug into my headphone on the PC and run it to the talk board the servo works fine but I lose the sound. Should I split the cable and run a speaker in parallel with this so I can get the sound back or does does the software have an option to not shut off the PC's speaker. Bottom line I need to hear the voice coming from computer.
I guess the other option is to leave headset port on PC along and put a mic on the talk board but I really don't want this because of background noise.
Sincerely Frank, EZ Ver 4
@Richard R,
That would come in handy actually -- but I'm still a few weeks away from that. I just got him to move with a new set of gears
Would it possible use the sound servo to trigger LEDs instead of servos?
Thanks, Aliusa
Not directly, but the sound servo object also sets a variable "$SoundValue" which you could use in a script which adjusts the PWM of a digital port with an LED plugged in, so the louder the sound, the brighter the LED glows (or you could just have it flash on and off, or if using an array of LED's and a TIP120 circuit to power them all on and off... virtually endless possibilities).
Alan
@thetechguru My goal is to make the mouth light up when there's sound through the EZB.
One LED or many? Just on and off, or brighter the louder the sound?
What you want to do is possible. If you want step by step instructions, I would need a lot more information about what you want to do and what you are trying to do it with.
Alan
I have one of these... They respond to sound levels flashing a led or any other 12v light according to the sound level... Sound sensor LED
that is a nice, simple, and cheap solution. Sometimes I get too wrapped up in figuring out how to do something with the EZ-B when a super simple and inexpensive solution already exists that could work beside, rather than as part of it.
Alan
Ha, Ha @Alan.. During the Apollo missions the American astronauts took expensive complicate nitrogen pressurized pens into space to compensate for writing in zero gravity... The soviets took pencils..... and probably a lot of vodka too...
Actually, that is a legend (well, not the part about Vodka), but it makes a good point.
Alan