Hi,
I appreciate I am probably asking for help writing an essay in French when my knowledge extends as far as "bonjour", but I'm going to ask anyway (sorry).
I've bought a novelty cuckoo-type clock:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nextime-Ro...1463848473&sr=8-1&keywords=romeo+juliet+clock
and I was wondering if it is possible to customise the tune that it plays on the hour? Well, possible for someone inexperienced like me to have a go? I've had a quick look inside and can see the separate components, including a circuit board with microchip. Bascially, there is a quartz clock movement and on the hour, a little melody plays and a motor moves a figurine. There is obviously already a speaker and also a light sensor that stops the melody playing overnight. So the hardware is in place and I don't really want to mess with the existing set up all that much. But is it possible, in theory, to just change the melody that plays by hooking it up to a PICkit?
Is it naive to think that I can find a way to view the existing source code or hex file, figure out what part is the melody and change it? If I had to write the whole code myself then I guess I'm pushing it a bit but I would love to do it and am willing to invest time and money, so thought it was worth asking.
I appreciate I am probably asking for help writing an essay in French when my knowledge extends as far as "bonjour", but I'm going to ask anyway (sorry).
I've bought a novelty cuckoo-type clock:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nextime-Ro...1463848473&sr=8-1&keywords=romeo+juliet+clock
and I was wondering if it is possible to customise the tune that it plays on the hour? Well, possible for someone inexperienced like me to have a go? I've had a quick look inside and can see the separate components, including a circuit board with microchip. Bascially, there is a quartz clock movement and on the hour, a little melody plays and a motor moves a figurine. There is obviously already a speaker and also a light sensor that stops the melody playing overnight. So the hardware is in place and I don't really want to mess with the existing set up all that much. But is it possible, in theory, to just change the melody that plays by hooking it up to a PICkit?
Is it naive to think that I can find a way to view the existing source code or hex file, figure out what part is the melody and change it? If I had to write the whole code myself then I guess I'm pushing it a bit but I would love to do it and am willing to invest time and money, so thought it was worth asking.