Talkie Toaster
Replica of enhanced version of talkie toaster from Red Dwarf. After turning on it lights led patterns similar to original and plays talkie speech in following order: 1. boot up sequence 2. doodilly greeting and then plays 5 speech tracks randomly in loop.
Since it was my first experience with arduino and coding, I borrowed codes for LED matrix and DFplayer from different projects on internet and merged them with help of AI ChatGPT.
Supplies
Arduino nano clone
DFplayer mini
Neopixel 8x8 LED matrix
Speaker
Bread board
Some jumper wires (F-F, M-M)
Mini USB cable to power supply arduino
MicroSD card
Lego or similar bricks (I used some old Germany alternative)
Soldering station
Ripping
Download the Red Dwarf episode 4 from season 4 titled "White Hole" (I used Any video converter for downloading czech dubbed version from YouTube)
Rip talkie speech from video (I used GoldWave)
Save 7 mp3 tracks on micro SD card in following order:
0.mp3 - boot sequence
1.mp3 - doodlidy
2.mp3 - muffin
3.mp3 - waffel
4.mp3 - question
5.mp3 - toast ?
6.mp3 - Shakespear
Uploaded mp3 for czech version
Assembly
Solder three male-male wires to Neopixel matrix
Wire the components according to following figure.
Code Uploading
Download and install Arduino IDE
Download libraries Adafruit_NeoPixel and DFRobotDFPlayerMini
Connect arduino
Download code Talkie_Toaster.ino
Open in IDE and upload the code to arduino
Downloads
Final
Make a toaster from bricks, insert project and enjoy !