Uploaded November 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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A recreation of Talkie Toaster from the TV series Red Dwarf.
What i've done, is to recreate the original design, but used the voice samples from the rebuilt version, that appeared in a later episode.
Here's the original Talkie Toaster, before he was smashed up with a 14lb lump hammer by Lister:
youtube.com/watch?v=7folKbch3U8
Rebuilt for an episode in Season 4, here he is delivering the lines as heard on my version:
youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
The Arduino code uses the TMRpcm library and is a simple case of responding to the PIR sensor going High or Low. The samples are loaded from the SD card.
The front grill area has the speaker underneath, with 2 white 5mm LED's that are connected to the Pin 9 output from the Arduino. The former laptop screen material was cut out and then fitted. The main surround is from the lid of a sour cream tub, sprayed with a Krylon brown rattle can paint. The 4 legs are from a window blind, cut to the right sizes and similarly sprayed, then glued with Fix-All.
The samples were recorded in Audacity, Normalized and saved out as 11025Hz, 8 bit WAV's, due to buffer constraints of the Arduino Pro-Mini. But, due to copyright probabilities, i'll have to advise a similar route for anyone wishing to recreate another. It all worked out quite well and, bizarrely enough, when he says 'Anyone like any toast ?" the toast racks vibrate LOL
Here's the Arduino code:
dropbox.com/s/yp63sk0t8yrueoo/TalkieToaster-Script.ino?dl=0
If you like my videos, please consider purchasing one of my books !
They are available at: smashwords.com/profile/view/Slider2732
Prices are from Free to $0.99, or name your price.
Coming soon:
The Beacon 2 - Battle of Nuclear Creek
Alternatively for a much appreciated larger donation - Paypal
cougarloverjrv@yahoo.com
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A recreation of Talkie Toaster from the TV series Red Dwarf.
What i've done, is to recreate the original design, but used the voice samples from the rebuilt version, that appeared in a later episode.
Here's the original Talkie Toaster, before he was smashed up with a 14lb lump hammer by Lister:
youtube.com/watch?v=7folKbch3U8
Rebuilt for an episode in Season 4, here he is delivering the lines as heard on my version:
youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
The Arduino code uses the TMRpcm library and is a simple case of responding to the PIR sensor going High or Low. The samples are loaded from the SD card.
The front grill area has the speaker underneath, with 2 white 5mm LED's that are connected to the Pin 9 output from the Arduino. The former laptop screen material was cut out and then fitted. The main surround is from the lid of a sour cream tub, sprayed with a Krylon brown rattle can paint. The 4 legs are from a window blind, cut to the right sizes and similarly sprayed, then glued with Fix-All.
The samples were recorded in Audacity, Normalized and saved out as 11025Hz, 8 bit WAV's, due to buffer constraints of the Arduino Pro-Mini. But, due to copyright probabilities, i'll have to advise a similar route for anyone wishing to recreate another. It all worked out quite well and, bizarrely enough, when he says 'Anyone like any toast ?" the toast racks vibrate LOL
Here's the Arduino code:
dropbox.com/s/yp63sk0t8yrueoo/TalkieToaster-Script.ino?dl=0
