A bit of bigginer help needed

Projects General Guidance
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Hello there!

As im sure you are aware i am completely new to this forum and this is my first post.

Me and a fellow student have been tasked to create a sound installation for London zoo, after loads of different and somewhat fruitless options we came across the arduino board system. Now, i am by no means a tech guy and am actually currently studying sound design, so have no idea whatsoever how to set such a system up, however i am aware that i will need either a Arduino Uno (or the like) and something called an audio shield? im aware these two units sort of clip together but what i really want to know is what i would need to set up a simple playback system for an installation. Would be great to have a pad that selected what track you wanted to listen to from a written list. And generally any help upon the matter would be massively appreciated!

Thanks in advance guys look forward to hearing from you
Craig

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Here's a thread that has some of what you need- worth a look at least: http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,65818.0.html

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and something called an audio shield?

Yes get one here:-
http://www.oomlout.co.uk/wave-sound-shield-for-arduino-kit-p-208.html
The demo programs that come with this ( get them on line ) will do 95% of your project for you.

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That's brilliant guys thanks very much! I did see on a video a guy had made one with a touchpad switchboard input where he would set say ten tracks to ten buttons on this switchboard and track 8 would play when number 8 was pushed. where or how would i go about doing this?

really appreciate all the help guys!

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where or how would i go about doing this?

Have you looked at the online documentation for what I posted? The code to do that is one of the examples.