# Motion activated audio

**URL:** <https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/t/motion-activated-audio/3682>\
**Category:** Arduino\
**Created:** [15 October 2018 02:06 UTC](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/t/motion-activated-audio/3682 "2018-10-15T02:06:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Jimmy222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jimmy222](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/u/Jimmy222)\
**Post date:** [15 October 2018 02:06 UTC](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/t/motion-activated-audio/3682/1 "2018-10-15T02:06:56Z")

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Hi is anyone handy building a motion activated audio player?  
A volume control  
3.5mm jack for output to speakers

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**Author:** ![Jimmy222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jimmy222](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/u/Jimmy222)\
**Post date:** [15 October 2018 02:08 UTC](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/t/motion-activated-audio/3682/2 "2018-10-15T02:08:29Z")

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Playing audio from a micro sd card on board  
Help with coding

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**Author:** ![Jimmy222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jimmy222](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/u/Jimmy222)\
**Post date:** [15 October 2018 02:22 UTC](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/t/motion-activated-audio/3682/3 "2018-10-15T02:22:36Z")

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> **[DFPlayer - A Mini MP3 Player](https://core-electronics.com.au/dfplayer-a-mini-mp3-player.html)**
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> Sing for the moment! The DFPlayer Mini is a small and low cost MP3 module with an simplified output directly to the speaker. The module can be used as a stand alone module with attached battery, speaker and push buttons or used in combination with an...

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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forum.core-electronics.com.au/stephen/32/1599_2.png) [@Stephen](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [15 October 2018 03:22 UTC](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/t/motion-activated-audio/3682/4 "2018-10-15T03:22:01Z")

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Hi Jimmy,

When you say motion activated audio, what do you mean? Is that certain motions to change tracks, or play audio only when in motion, etc?

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**Author:** ![Jimmy222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jimmy222](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/u/Jimmy222)\
**Post date:** [15 October 2018 03:29 UTC](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/t/motion-activated-audio/3682/5 "2018-10-15T03:29:21Z")

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A motion sensor when activated play tracks. A manual play and skip button if possible.

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**Author:** ![Stephen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/forum.core-electronics.com.au/stephen/32/1599_2.png) [@Stephen](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/u/Stephen)\
**Post date:** [15 October 2018 04:39 UTC](https://forum.core-electronics.com.au/t/motion-activated-audio/3682/6 "2018-10-15T04:39:18Z")

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Jimmy,

You could make something happen with these:

> **[Teensy Audio Board](https://core-electronics.com.au/teensy-audio-board.html)**
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> This is the Teensy Audio board add-on for the Teensy 3.0 and 3.1 development boards. This audio board provides you with an easy-to-use tool to add high quality 16 bit, 44.1 kHz sample rate audio to your Teensy project. With the audio library provided...

  

> **[Teensy Audio Board](https://core-electronics.com.au/teensy-audio-board.html)**
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> This is the Teensy Audio board add-on for the Teensy 3.0 and 3.1 development boards. This audio board provides you with an easy-to-use tool to add high quality 16 bit, 44.1 kHz sample rate audio to your Teensy project. With the audio library provided...

  

> **[PIR (motion) sensor](https://core-electronics.com.au/pir-motion-sensor.html)**
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> PIR sensors are used to detect motion from pets/humanoids from about 20 feet away (possibly works on zombies, not guaranteed). This one has an adjustable delay before .. read more

Many boards cant play audio on their own, but there are plenty of shields to help you out.

This setup will be a bit more straight forward:

> **[Arduino Uno R3](https://core-electronics.com.au/arduino-uno-r3.html)**
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> The Arduino UNO is the most used board in the family of Arduino boards. If you are starting out with Arduino, this is the board to get.

  

> **[Adafruit Wave Shield for Arduino Kit - v1.1](https://core-electronics.com.au/adafruit-wave-shield-for-arduino-kit-v1-1.html)**
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> Adding quality audio to an electronic project is surprisingly difficult. Here is a shield for Arduinos that solves this problem. It can play up to 22KHz 12bit uncompressed .. read more

  

> **[PIR (motion) sensor](https://core-electronics.com.au/pir-motion-sensor.html)**
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> PIR sensors are used to detect motion from pets/humanoids from about 20 feet away (possibly works on zombies, not guaranteed). This one has an adjustable delay before .. read more
