The CoreBoard that I am making only has 15 buttons, but each one will be roughly 2 to 4 inches. (I haven't gotten the vinyl in yet, so I'm not sure on the size.) These buttons need to be pressed with the kids' hands and I can't figure out what buttons to use. The buttons will also need to be like 6 inches from the actual Pi unit. Do I need to just get some generic buttons and solder some longer wires on, or is there a simpler way of doing this?Nice!So I am making a CoreBoard for a therapy clinic and I want to make it interactive so when you press a button, it will say something out loud. I am fairly new to Raspberry Pi and would like to know what hardware and what software I would need and if there are any tutorials that might help me in completing this project.
I had to look up what a CoreBoard was. The one I found has 77 squares to point to.
For robustness I'd recommend doing this on a micro, rather than a Pi. You could do it on a Pi with a touch screen, but that gets expensive quickly.
If you wanted to make a big switch panel with the squares over the top then you will need some fabricating skills, but you can get others to help.
A Pi Pico would probably allow you to store audio files internally, then some simple code would figure out which button was pressed and play an audio file. The same can be done with an Arduino and an mp3 module. All pretty cheap.
Power it off a USB phone charger (where have we heard that before?) or some AA batteries (rechargeable) for simplicity.
P.S. the layout will be a vinyl banner with the design printed on it, a wooden frame (the whole build is 2' by 4' or 0.6 meters by 1.2 meters), all the buttons that sit behind the vinyl, then at the very back some form of housing unit for all the Pi parts.
Statistics: Posted by AdenEwald — Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:01 pm
