Hi,
My spirit ball is the big 14" one, and don't have any microphone.
I opened the spirit ball and found something interesting. On the circuit board, there's 3 holes aligned in a triangle shape. One hole have the letters "JS", and is connected (jumped with a short wire) to the unnamed hole next to it. The third hole next to the two previous holes have the letters "MIC" and is not connected to anything.
I'm not enough good about electronic to understand the circuit, but I suspect that Gemmy use the same circuit board for the "with microphone" and "without microphone" version. They probably don't connect a connector to the "MIC" hole or something, when they sell the "without microphone" version.
Did any of you have found these 3 holes on their spirit ball circuit board, and have you found a way to hack it so it can use a microphone or line in attached to it?
Or have you found a way to connect an audio input to the internal circuit, so the internal circuit is use to animate the head (instead of using a color organ directly connected to the motors)?
Thank-you for any informations.
My spirit ball is the big 14" one, and don't have any microphone.
I opened the spirit ball and found something interesting. On the circuit board, there's 3 holes aligned in a triangle shape. One hole have the letters "JS", and is connected (jumped with a short wire) to the unnamed hole next to it. The third hole next to the two previous holes have the letters "MIC" and is not connected to anything.
I'm not enough good about electronic to understand the circuit, but I suspect that Gemmy use the same circuit board for the "with microphone" and "without microphone" version. They probably don't connect a connector to the "MIC" hole or something, when they sell the "without microphone" version.
Did any of you have found these 3 holes on their spirit ball circuit board, and have you found a way to hack it so it can use a microphone or line in attached to it?
Or have you found a way to connect an audio input to the internal circuit, so the internal circuit is use to animate the head (instead of using a color organ directly connected to the motors)?
Thank-you for any informations.