Raspberry Pi Project

[Pink_Snowman]

I am currently working on a cosplay and had the idea to incorporate sound with it. so at the press of a button the sound will play (EX- button 1 pressed, sound 1 played etc). i plan on using a rapberry pi and a standard usb number pad as the input. i will figure out speakers later. i was hoping someone knew a program that could do the things i need. please correct me if im wrong but its basically a macro system right? if you happen to know of a program that will let me play sounds on the raspberry pi please share it. thank you for the help.

[HunterSkater429]

Just put an os on it and get a virtual sound board? 

[Droidbot]

just get a cheap phone and a soundboard? 

[BigBakedPotater]

If you do go the raspberry pi route, just throw any Linux distro, most likely the raspbian one that you can get right through their website, and just write the program yourself or ask someone with any kind of knowledge of Python to do it, it is extremely easy to wait for input from a button and then play a sound file. If you need help writing the program send me a PM and I will help you throw something together.

[AshleyAshes]

A Raspberry Pi would be GROSSLY overkill.

 

For a cosplay I rigged up a dummy radio that would squawk out Japanese military radio chatter and I went with this:

 

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2133

 

That board will let you load sounds into it and simply trigger them with up to 11 wired in buttons.  Like, that's ALL you need.  That, amp, speaker, battery, you're in business.

 

It ALSO supports serial control, so I used an Arduino to control the board over serial to run random sequence patterns and special functions when the talk button was pressed.  But if you ONLY want up to 11 sounds tied to 11 buttons, that board will do the job.