Greetings,
I want to make an interactive donations to collect donations for the heart patients.
It will be like a "sound" like that of straight line on the ECG comes when the person is dead will always be coming out of the speaker and when a person insert a coin or a note in the box. The Heart Beat Sound should come for 1-2 seconds and then again the ECG sound continues.
It is to give message that your donation just saved a Heart Beat.

I have selected the sensor that would detect the coin. I wan to use normal pc speaker which a person can hear for around 5 ft. connected with 3.5 mm jack. Now what I want to know is how to store the two sounds of heart beat and straight line on PIC 16f877A controller? I have heard that one can store the sound in the form of .bin file instead of .mp3 and can use it as an output.

Hints and suggestions are required.

 

If you use a wav file format you can play the output via a ladder network into an amplifier to your speaker with simple digital to analogue output. As you have a short output sequence you wouldn't need an SD card just store everything in program memory.

 

Suggestion or observation: Having the flat line sound on all the time would be incredibly annoying if I had to work near it. I'd be as likely to smash the box instead of donating.

Perhaps you could use an IR motion detector to trigger the flat line sound?

 

Agreed. Perhaps just do away with the flat-line sound?

 

You could just hack the heartbeat module out of a stuffed toy. I think you can buy them in bulk.

One more vote for dropping the flat line sound. Annoying and creepy.

 

We have a retail store in the local mall that sells plush toys that you stuff yourselves. "Build-A-Bear", I think. They sell the heartbeat modules there and you can probably pick one up. Oh, and ...

 

Suggestion or observation: Having the flat line sound on all the time would be incredibly annoying if I had to work near it. I'd be as likely to smash the box instead of donating.

Perhaps you could use an IR motion detector to trigger the flat line sound?

Agreed. Perhaps just do away with the flat-line sound?

I agree that flat line would be annoying to ears, and could damage them, so I should just drop the idea of it, while just do the coin part where an isertion of coin gives out heart beat.

 

If you use a wav file format you can play the output via a ladder network into an amplifier to your speaker with simple digital to analogue output. As you have a short output sequence you wouldn't need an SD card just store everything in program memory.

Could you be more specific about the ladder network.
Also will the wav file can be directly played via PIC Controller, no need to change the format? (P.S never played with extensions before)

 

Look up resistor ladder network to do A/D from parallel digital outputs from PIC.
A wav file is just a series of bytes representing output voltages, ie feed data bytes directly to the output port connected to the resistor ladder network, add an output amplifier and send it to a speaker.

 

Heart-beat sounds are low frequency, so you will probably need a fairly beefy amp and a decent-size speaker for good sound.

 

This is not helpful if you want to make the heartbeat sound from a wav file, but just throwing it out there as another option.

Just to elaborate on the Build-A-Bear idea, their heart module is a mechanical vibrator and not appropriate. But they have a Personalized Build-A-Sound module for 8.00 USD. I would think you should be able to modify it to be driven from your PIC. As is, it plays when squeezed; likely a NO switch built into the casing.

 

Just use a recordable sound module and record any "heart beat" sound from the Internet. It will sound kind of tinny but so will anything without a decent amp and speaker.

Here is a recordable module with a speaker (designed for a greeting card)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/120s-GREETI...651?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35ab18895b

 

I have selected the sensor that would detect the coin.

This is trickier than it sounds!

I was involved in a unit that did something similar to what you are doing -- When a coin was inserted a sound was made. I chose an inexpensive coin acceptor. It was the kind that has a button to return the coin. So far so good...

The problem was that if a coin jammed and no sound was made, the person would not push the button. They did not want their money back; they wanted to hear the sound. So, they would just put in another coin. The coin reject channel in the coin acceptor got jammed with coins so tight that it was almost impossible to clear the jam!

Our problem was made worse by the fact that the unit was in a family area with unsupervised children. We found sticks, gum wrappers and other non-coins blocking the coin slot. The solution was to make our own custom coin acceptor.

We chose to accept any coin that would fit into a slot sized for a US quarter. Any coin that fit in the slot would roll down a steep channel and through an optical slot detector. A coin smaller than a quarter would not make a sound. A panel on one side of the channel was made removable, without tools, to allow cleaning out the sticks and gum wrappers.