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Hi all

I need some help with some electronics and I thought what better place than a mountain bike forum!

My son has bought a cheap coin operated kids ride (the sort that you find outside shops) for for my grandson. The lights and sound on it are not working, the lights I can sort as I've got enough knowledge to wire up some LED's.

How would I go about sorting out some sort of sound for it? I was thinking about some sort of cheap MP3 player and a small amplifier wired into the timed circuit from the motor, or are there any better ways of doing it?

Any suggestions anyone?


 
Posted : 02/11/2012 7:45 pm
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Maplin do little kits that do that kind of thing I think...


 
Posted : 02/11/2012 7:55 pm
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I've had a look in the Maplins book and can't see any that will do a recording for a couple of minutes.


 
Posted : 02/11/2012 7:58 pm
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Hmm, they've been cutting down a lot on the interesting stuff 🙂

Yes, if it needs to be a recorded piece of music then a bodged MP3 player is probably the simplest and cheapest way to do it.


 
Posted : 02/11/2012 8:01 pm
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This might do what you want.
[url] http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/audio-sound-breakout-wtv020sd-p-1025.html [/url]


 
Posted : 02/11/2012 8:04 pm
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Maybe you could re-purpose one of those "record your own greeting" cards?


 
Posted : 02/11/2012 8:41 pm
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IanMunro; that looks like it would probably do the job, would it be hard to wire it in?


 
Posted : 02/11/2012 10:46 pm
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Is it all 115/240v inside? Or some 12&5v too?


 
Posted : 02/11/2012 10:51 pm
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240v, I was going to step it down by putting a laptop charger or a PC power supply in the base. Aternatively I was just going to buy something like a generic power supply/charger from Maplins as I didn't want 240v around where mini-spursn17 is sitting.


 
Posted : 02/11/2012 11:20 pm