MIC reactive LEDs.

[rceckspurt13]

Hey,

I was wondering how you could make lights that respond to the sound of your voice from a microphone. Could you just wire it as the audio input on an lm386? If so, I don't see why nobody has done it before.

[PspKicks316]

I don't see why nobody has done it before.

Because...there's no point to it?
Yea, you could probably do it that way.

[gr8npwrfl]

Buy Yourself a Mr. Microphone

[rceckspurt13]

what is that? It sounds like a kids toy? Anyway I tried it with the mic direct connected to the audio input of the lm386 and it didnt work. No light at all. I know the lm, light, mic all work because I tested them seperatelly. Any ideas on how to get it to work?

[folklord36]

mine works on my slim I have a mic wired up and amps wired to the heaphone jack I can use the amped speakers for my Ipod just by pluging into headphone port on psp psp dosent even have to be on and when I use my mic LEDs react but thats because the psp reads my voice then sends it to the headphone amps and those amps also drive my LEDs I really dont see why direct wire dosent work but this is better anyway because the mic is functional too

[gr8npwrfl]

LOL

It was a kids toy it was a microphone that lit up and changed your voice.

[rceckspurt13]

Hmmm I wonder why it didnt work for me if it worked for you? Somthing I knoticed a while back was this: when I had my amp and led hooked up to my isymphony speakers and an external power source, it worked fine. But when I hooked up the lm386 to the isymphony's power supply or when the speakers were turned off while hooked to the external source, the light would react to sound. Like when I would slide the speaker on the table or blow into it. Didnt react to regular voice though. The isymphony has no mic. This means that the speaker was acting as a mic. Mabey if I hooked the mic to the lm386 output, I could get it to react to sound? I guess I'll try after class tomorrow. Thanks for the replys.


Folklord: could you post a schematic of how you have it hooked? Mabey I'll copy what you did if it really works. I just think it will be cool if my psp lights would react to my voice.

gr8npwrfl: where could I get my hands on one of those mr. Microphone toys? Mabey I'll reverse engineer it and put it in a psp! LOL.

[FaT3oYCG]

make sure you wired it right, it doesn't sound like you did.

(Supply +) ----- (Mic -) ----- (Mic +) ----- (Led -) ----- (Led +) ----- (Supply -)

not

(Supply +) ----- (Mic - & Led -) ----- (Mic + & Led +) ----- (Supply -)

[l0rdnic0]

LOL

It was a kids toy it was a microphone that lit up and changed your voice.

hahaha from the 70's Nice I remember that thing....

[ndrew2505]

hahaha from the 70's Nice I remember that thing....

lol nicos old...

[gr8npwrfl]

Then how old does that make me ?

Ancient ?

[Jumbo]

Then how old does that make me ?

Ancient ?

LOL well put it this way you are younger then my grandfather and he is ancient so you are the step under?

But age doesnt matter you are one smart guy