Meeting Minutes Oct 15, 2011¶

Agenda¶

• Define project
• Discuss over all design
• Draft Bill of Materials
• Path forward

Location¶

Dayton Diode

Start-End Times¶

1600-1630

Attending¶

J., Joe

Discussion¶

• Define project
  • Per email from Liz Landis: One of our new exhibits needs a push button to play some prerecorded audio. I thought that this would be a great way to test out using Arduinos as low cost solutions in our exhibit spaces. I found this solution and wanted to see what you think. Originally, I was hoping just to extend the play button of an mp3 player to a button, but then realized that all of those are play/pause buttons. That won't work for us.
• Discuss over all design
  • Joe - looks like the Adafruit Wave Shield will do the job. It will be best if we just use that with a standard Arduino Uno
  • J - so we need an Arduino Uno, a Wave Shield Kit, a memory card sized to fit the audio file(s), and depending on how much of the exhibit is done the button, speaker(s), amplifier (if needed), and a case for the electronics
  • Joe - right
• Draft Bill of Materials
  • (1) Arduino Uno - $27
  • (1) Adafruit Wave Shield Kit - $22 (currently out of stock 10-14 day backorder)
  • (1) SD Card (size TBD)
  • Speaker(s) (TBD)
  • (1) Button (TBD)
  • Parts for case (TBD)
  • Other hardware as required to hook things up (TBD)
• Path forward
  • J. or Joe need to arrange for a visit to the Museum to document the current design of the exhibit so we can work out the remaining details of the project
  • Need to discuss ordering an Arduino Uno and a Wave Shield Kit with Liz so we can go ahead and start experimenting with the key pieces of technology involved