Latest creation has now left the workshop thank goodness.
It's a play rocket and probably contains more processing power that the first rocket that actually went to the moon. One of the most appreciated items was a little
MP3 sound processor with 4MB storage, so every time a button is pressed, it plays a MP3 file. You can get a lot of little sound files in 4MB. I used Text Aloud (text to speech) to create some of the files. It also contained a sound generator chip linked to a recycled model aircraft controller to vary the frequency. This turned out to be the 'hyper drive' for jumping between planets in seconds!! I also added a small PWM as a lamp dimmer. I used the old LEDs from an LED tube I broke recently. The dials were found on line, printed and laminated with a little LED back light. The windows are recycled pan lids. The slide and steps were a recycled slide, split in two.
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