Making a talking pumpkin .................................................................
This is the mouthpiece of the pumpkin organization: the one that receives the
IR beam and plays back whatever you record.Follow these steps to build your talking pumpkin:- Place the voice chip IC and six terminal blocks on the breadboard, as
shown in Figure 9-18.
As you can see in this figure, you connect two wires to each terminal
block. The wires from these six terminal blocks (TBs) go to the battery
pack, on/off switch, record switch, IR detector, speaker, and microphone,
respectively.- Insert wires to connect each component and terminal to the ground
bus and insert a wire between the two ground buses to connect them,
as shown in Figure 9-19.
Figure 9-19:
Connect
components
to the
ground bus.
Figure 9-18:
Place the
voice chip
IC and six
TBs on the
breadboard.
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