Play Your Own Christmas Carols with LED Light Display

Bring the spirit of the holidays with you anywhere using this DIY caroling device and light display! For full documentation and source code, visit the Stamps in Class 'Mini Projects' page on www.parallax.com/education.

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[chickenpoper]

Kinda sucks how you have to power the basic stamp 2 externally with a battery or power source other than the power coming from the usb/serial.

[ChesneyDigital]

@TheBasicStamp Really, well I just received the Parallax 2011 product catalog and OH BOY on page 82 what did I see? Something called the AP-16+ Audio Player, WOW!!! I've been looking for a Basic Stamp compatible device like this for years! Now I can finally convert my broken down vintage jukebox into a cool .WAV player while still retaining the use of the original buttons by interfacing them to the BS2p40 and then to the AP-16's serial interface. Parallax rocks!

[TheBasicStamp]

@ChesneyDigital The BASIC Stamp does NOT have a TRUE sound output. Sound files do not just tell your computer to send out 1's and 0's. They tell your computer how much "power" to send. So there really is noway that you can play true audio.

[sailing314]

Beauty!

[ChesneyDigital]

That's cool.  Next, how about a tutorial on building a servo controlled dancing Santa! I'd love to learn how to use the Basic Stamp to play sound files as well.

[FozzyUSN]

The piezzo sounds like crud. We use a small 2" speaker which sounds much better.

[TheGeek205]

works great!!!

[krisiluttinen]

Now what if we use a nice regular speaker instead of the piezzo? How would it sound? Better?