Voice controlled LED sign

posted Nov 10th 2009 7:00am by Jakob Griffith
filed under: led hacks

120 LEDs and NerdKit, check. Python and appropriate Google Voice module, check. Blend on high for 2 minutes, bake for an hour at 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Your soufflé is done, whoops, we mean your voice controlled LED sign is done. Leave a voicemail on Davis’ Google Voice account that starts with “message” and it will be displayed for all to read within a matter of minutes. We think: make it bigger and add a security code before you can leave a message, and you’ve got the perfect recipe for some over sized message fun.

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tagged: google voice, led, matrix, message, voice, voicemail

8 Responses to Voice controlled LED sign

chicosoft says:

November 10, 2009 at 7:32 am

Very cool hack

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Skitchin says:

November 10, 2009 at 7:49 am

Nice, though I thought the fact you had to say message was a bit redundant.

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Brian Lee says:

November 10, 2009 at 8:25 am

Good job! It incorporates several uses of readily available technology to get the job done. I wonder if there’s a way you can PUSH Google voice messages rather than fetch every minute or so.

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sean says:

November 10, 2009 at 8:47 am

excellent hack. This is great and really opens up the opportunities of TTS applications.

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chiefcrash says:

November 10, 2009 at 9:50 am

@Skitchin: I’m sure you could program that out if you wanted, or change the trigger word. It’s python for cryin out loud. But if you only have one google voice account, it might help to have a trigger word so not *every* voicemail gets piped to the screen…

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Amos says:

November 10, 2009 at 6:43 pm

The first thing I thought of: The police officer’s hat from Back to the Future 2 :)

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/bttf/images/d/db/Bf2cops.jpg

(Only picture I could find :/ Cool hover-car, though ;)

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Amos says:

November 10, 2009 at 6:45 pm

Oops! Found a better picture… http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/bttf/images/5/51/Reesefoleypromo.jpg (Sorry for the double-post! And for not mentioning Arduinos :P )