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Hi!

We're a group of students at swedish digital media school Hyper Island who wants to achieve this:

Using Arduino to make LED's in a box light up when you scream into it... 

So, we only know the BASIC BASICS about how to use Arduino, and we would like your help to figure out:

What components do we need? (We have Arduino UNO Board Model)
What code do we need?
What else do we need to do?

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PLEASE HELP!

Cheers.

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Using Arduino to make LED's in a box light up when you scream into it...

You are going to need something that converts sound waves to digital or analog format. Typically, that is a microphone. Have you got one?

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Hi!

We're a group of students at swedish digital media school Hyper Island who wants to achieve this:

Using Arduino to make LED's in a box light up when you scream into it...  

You need a microphone connected to an analogue input pin. "Electret" types are cheap and easy to hook up to an Arduino, all you need is a resistor and a capacitor.

Use the circuit on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electret_microphone

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I seem to remember seeing an Arduino-based graphic equaliser project which sounds like more or less what you're trying to achieve.

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graphic equaliser

Did you mean "spectrum analyser"?

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The output from the electret microphone will probably need to be amplified.

wade

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graphic equaliser

Did you mean "spectrum analyser"?

I think it was more like a VU display, which is probably closer to what DancingHomer is after.