What this place needs is some jawas
November 4, 2016 1:29 PM   Subscribe

Here's the plan—we get pairs of red LEDs, battery powered, with little speakers that make jawa noises. Then we disperse them throughout that space in back that's just piles of old office equipment. What's the best way to achieve this critical mission?
posted by bigbigdog to Technology (6 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
Adafruit makes an Arduino compatible speaker shield.

This speaker "leaf" might end up being more cost effective (Arduino/Raspberry Pi).

Regardless, hooking up LEDs to a cheap development board of any stripe should be trivial, so the speaker+audio processing is the only real trick.
posted by sparklemotion at 1:36 PM on November 4, 2016


Buy recordable birthday cards and leds and batteries.

https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3ARecordable%20Birthday%20Cards

Sparkfun has good tutorials on simple circuits and good training on parallel vs. series for DC current.
posted by edbles at 1:47 PM on November 4, 2016 [1 favorite]


Not an answer but a tip: you don't want red LEDs, you want amber.

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/5/56/Jawas.png/revision/latest?cb=20150728165709
posted by ElDiabloConQueso at 1:48 PM on November 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


I think you need some kind of motion sensor to set it off, though.
posted by clone boulevard at 1:49 PM on November 4, 2016 [2 favorites]


Ok I just made a jawa costume for halloween. These are the lights I used.
posted by rabidsegue at 7:50 PM on November 4, 2016


Yeah, regular LEDs are probably too small and intense than what you're looking for. You'd have to put some cotton balls or something on them to diffuse the light. Recordable birthday cards + rapidseque's lights is probably the easiest option, unless you want to arduino-ify the thing for a more permanent fixture.
posted by rocketbadger at 3:23 PM on November 5, 2016


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