Step 1: (re)Soldering

For the soldering part of this project there isn't much to do.

All you need to do for the pringle-speaker is soldering of the GND and VVC of the battery pack and potentially solder on some jumper cables.

This is if you are using a pringle-speaker.

For the battery connector you don't need to do anything but i made a switch for easy power on and off.

This is if you want this too.

Step 2: Plugging Everything In

Speaker --> Arduino

VVC --> 5v
GND --> GND

Battery --> Arduino

"+" --> VIN
"-" --> GND

(this works too instead of the plug)

And as NOT shown in the picture, plug the SD card into its slot and plug the shield into the arduino.

Step 3: SD Card Files

As you can see in the picture I numbered all the files in the folder "SD kaart" (it's dutch. it translates to SD card).

This is because the arduino reads the first file it reads as the first file that will be played. (did the make sense?)

Just to stop your confusion:

I started with the number 002 and then jumped to 005 this is just because I had some more sounds but I deleted those.

I organized all the sounds:

002-002 = boot sound: this sound will play only once.
005-013 = happy sounds
014-022 = angry/annoyed
023-036 = BB8 just talking a little bit.

If you do it like I did you will be able to adjust the program so that when you give the arduino a signal It will play a random sound in these categories which can be useful (in my case it is).

Step 4: Programming

I am not responsible for the program

This guy is: awesome guy I got the code from

He wrote the program for the most part.

But because his links weren't working I thought I'd make this instructables anyways.

And because of my BB-8 project of course.

Because I'm lazy I downloaded his program and tested it and it was 100% perfect (props to him).

The only thing I did is I added an int named boot and in the void loop I put an If statement making sure the code in it only runs once by changing the int. (might not be the best solution but it works)

Also I set the default volume to 17 see "SetVolume(17);" this is perfect for my BB8. This can be adjusted and the overall volume can be influenced by the speaker you are using.

So this is the code with my tiny code added:

!!! NOTE DO NOT UPLOAD THE PROGRAM WHILST THE SHIELD IS ON THE ARDUINO

IT MAY GET DAMAGED.

//simple Tx on pin D12
//Written By : Mohannad Rawashdeh
//Slightly Edited By : Maarten Bökkerink
// 3:00pm , 13/6/2013
//http://www.genotronex.com/
//..................................
#include 
#include 
SoftwareSerial Geno(7,8); // Rx , 
unsigned char Data[10];
unsigned char i;
int boot = 1;
void setup(){
    vw_set_ptt_inverted(true); // Required for DR3100
    vw_set_rx_pin(12);
    vw_setup(4000);  // Bits per sec
    pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
    vw_rx_start();       // Start the receiver PLL running
 delay(1000);
  Geno.begin(9600);
  delay(1000);
  SetVolume(17); 
   
}
void playTrack(int num){
    delay(1000);
    
    Data[0] = 0x7E; 
    Data[1] = 0x04; 
    Data[2] = 0xA0; 
    Data[3] = 0x00;
    Data[4] = 0x00 + num;
    Data[5] = 0x7E;
   Command(Data,5);
    play_pause();
    
    delay(3000);
 
}
void SetVolume( int vol){
   Data[0] = 0x7E;          // START
   Data[1] = 0x03;          // Length Not 0x02
   Data[2] = 0xA7;          // Command
   Data[3] = vol;          // new volume
   Data[4] = 0x7E;          // END
   Command(Data,5);
}
void play_pause(){
  Data[0] = 0x7E;          // START
  Data[1] = 0x02;          // Length
  Data[2] = 0xA3;          // Command
  Data[3] = 0x7E;          //Mode parameter
  Command(Data,4);
}
void Command(unsigned char *Data, int length){
    for(int i=0; i
    if(boot==1){
      delay (2000);
      playTrack(1);
     boot = 2;
        
    }else{
      
    }
    
    uint8_t buf[VW_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN];
    uint8_t buflen = VW_MAX_MESSAGE_LEN;
    if (vw_get_message(buf, &buflen)) // Non-blocking
    {
      if(buf[0]=='1'){
    
    playTrack(1);
  
   digitalWrite(13,1);
      }  
   if(buf[0]=='0'){
  digitalWrite(13,0);
  
  delay (2000);
    }
}
}