Dear All
Very first post and first foray into the world of electronics. My son (13 years old) has had a couple of ideas and we wanted to start learning about electronics with a small project. I know nothing about electronics either.
Firstly, we want to detect a small shock - say from a coin dropping on to a piece of wood - and then have an action based on that shock - A sound is played on a speaker.
Is this the correct forum to be asking these questions? If so, what do you recommend for we buy to build our prototype?
Doing our initial research it looked like the following was a good cheap way of detecting a shock:
http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/43406.pdf
P. 26 - Piezo electric ceramic - But dont know how to order this or equivalent.
I imagine I would have to relay this sound to a micro controller, and then play a selection of sounds on a speaker.
Many thanks for any pointers you can give - trying to support my son in learning about this stuff, and trying to get my grey matter up to speed as well.
Racket.
Very first post and first foray into the world of electronics. My son (13 years old) has had a couple of ideas and we wanted to start learning about electronics with a small project. I know nothing about electronics either.
Firstly, we want to detect a small shock - say from a coin dropping on to a piece of wood - and then have an action based on that shock - A sound is played on a speaker.
Is this the correct forum to be asking these questions? If so, what do you recommend for we buy to build our prototype?
Doing our initial research it looked like the following was a good cheap way of detecting a shock:
http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/43406.pdf
P. 26 - Piezo electric ceramic - But dont know how to order this or equivalent.
I imagine I would have to relay this sound to a micro controller, and then play a selection of sounds on a speaker.
Many thanks for any pointers you can give - trying to support my son in learning about this stuff, and trying to get my grey matter up to speed as well.
Racket.