Expanded Vocabulary Easy Button

The Easy Button is available from Staples for $5 and it simply says "that was easy" every time you smack it. The easy button is well constructed for the price, but requires a little work and about $10 worth of parts to make it recordable.

I chose to use the ISD1600B voice recorder chip and essentially build the reference circuit for it. I made sure to get a microphone that had good low frequency response since the speaker in this thing is so big and can reproduce low frequency voices well.

You will need [digikey part numbers in brackets]:
(1) Easy Button
(1) ISD1610 Voice recorder [ISD1610BSY-ND]
(1) Electret microphone [P9925-ND]
(1) Pushbutton [EG1826-ND]
(1) 1k Resistor [1.00KdXBK-ND]
(1) 80.6k Resistor [80.6KXBK-ND]
(3) 4.75k Resistor [4.75KXBK-ND]
(5) 0.1uF Ceramic capacitor [BC1101CT-ND]
(5) 4.7uF Caramic capacitor [445-2854-ND]

You will also need these supplies:
Wire (I used 24 AWG stranded and 30 AWG solid)
Glue (I used 5 minute epoxy)
Solder

And these tools:
Soldering iron
Wire cutter/stripper
Tweezers