BLE Streaming Audio Jump-Scare Device - DC To Daylight

[@RickMunday]

The best I saw this year was an audio trip like yours in conjunction with a leaf blower (a tube taped on to the nozzle made out of plastic sheeting for movement and additional noise) powered via a relay on the same trigger. It even scared me!

[@AmRadPodcast]

That's brilliant!!!! You're giving me ideas for next year. -Derek

[@winstonsmith478]

On a different, but related topic. Bluetooth headphones aren't long-range. 2.4GHz headphones can be, but they are rare and the good ones are very expensive. A maker project I'd like to see: a USB wifi transmitter getting the audio stream via USB (requiring software on the PC) or, more simply, a USB-powered wifi transmitter getting the audio from the headphone jack transmitting to a battery powered wifi receiver into which any headphone can be plugged. This using a 16-bit (at least) ADC plus a popular, cheap, and small wifi-capable compute module at the TX end, and the same compute module with 16-bit DAC and audio amplifier at the RX end.

[@AmRadPodcast]

This sounds like an interesting project.. in my experience classic bluetooth has a pretty decent range, BLE doesn't come close however - at least with the usual PCB antennas.. but 2.4GHz and a dish would put you into an entirely different class. Cooking something up from scratch at 2.4GHz requires a next-level RF engineers brain (I can get up to about 500MHz before parasitics take over the show - and my knowledge dries up). Does anyone make a module for something like this? I've never seen such a device. -Derek

[@MAYERMAKES]

by sheer conicidence i`m working on something along those lines...but its currently frying my brain..a lot of challenges to overcome until christmas.

[@AmRadPodcast]

@@MAYERMAKES that sounds like a lot to do before Christmas.hit me up if you need a second set of eyes!

[@sanmeethundal3397]

Walky talk project next ....please!!!! I love your videos!!

[@hectorvidales876]

Cool project!

[@CaptainKirk01]

Just a thought, Multiple speakers from different directions, staggered timings, echos, More than one thing playing at a time. Or A bass speaker in one spot, a mid range in another, a horn or tweeter in another, playing different sounds, growl in the bass and a screech in the horn. Or maybe just the multiple locations of the same sound becomes strange and alarming b/c its not normal to hear that way?

[@AmRadPodcast]

Goode ideas to try. Next time I’m going to take my powered sub and satellites out there!

[@CaptainKirk01]

@@AmRadPodcast The idea is to confuse the senses, this being auditory, changing the pitch, volume, location, frequency, or location of speakers.

[@jeffschroeder4805]

Do kids these days seem much less susceptible to being scared? Maybe they are desensitized by constantly hearing scary sounds as they walk through Walgreens or Walmart before Halloween?

[@AmRadPodcast]

I think there's some validity to this. The conditions could have been improved though... 1. I had to swap out my dim green patio light for a bright light that would work with the webcam, 2. I could have gotten a better reaction by scaring younger kids, which I didn't feel comfortable doing, 3. Some kind of thing jumping out would have really sold it. One thing that I really couldn't capture was how loud it was - I was pleasantly surprised how loud that little class-D amp was. To make a long story short, I totally agree they may be desensitized. I'll just need to ramp it up with falling spiders on strings and a skeleton that jumps out; Rick in comments above mentioned a leaf blower. I feel a Halloween special is in order. -Derek