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Gadget Freak Case #150: Hotrod Your Billy Bass

Design News Staff -- Design News, October 12, 2009

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Perhaps you have a "Big Mouth Billy Bass," given to you circa 2001. If so, its limited repertoire has probably grown stale. As a Gadget Freak reader it probably crossed your mind to teach your "fish" to sing new songs, such as Monty Python's "Lumberjack Song." Well, you can give Big Mouth Billy Bass an ARM-powered brain transplant so it will play .wav files from an attached micro-SD card, and you can choreograph its movements to match.

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Gadget Freak Case 150 Hotrod Your Billy Bass



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Part Description

Allied Part #

1

Micro-SD Card Socket

367-0344

1

Solderless Breadboard

237-0019

1

RJ45 Punchdown Jack

805-0486

1

MBED ARM Cortex-M3 Based

Microcontroller Development Board

 

1

Big Mouth Billy Bass

 

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