It is not serious RnD, it’s joke-like device, quite practical though.
Device with one major (and primitive) functionality - making specific noises from day to day life.
Why is it cool? Because we do not realise how much common sounds in fact affects our life, and we can tune our usual experience with this additional dimension of sounds.
- Water sounds in a sing in a bathroom. When do some people turn on water in the bathroom? Just to drown out other sounds of hygiene activities.
- Sound of boiling of the kettle in the kitchen. It just made everything cozy.
- Sound of sleeping somebody in your bead (snoring or light breath). Maybe quite comforting.
Main thematics and ease of production make this project good fitting for fund-raising platforms like kickstarter, as joke projects for geeks have good chances there.
Standalone solution:
One button, while pressed records sound, after that automatically loops it and play (other button).
Connected solution:
- way 1: Mobile app allows manage sounds via bluetooth.
- way 2 Connects to wifi, after that sounds can be uploaded via simple web interface (or even telegram chatbot). Which is good about it, truly crossplatform solution - whereever you can run telegram - you can upload sounds to your device.
Device’s loudspeaker should be good. And it should be minimum frictions - ~single button box.
Qi charger, no unnecessary wires. Either we keep it simple, or else it will have more sense to implement it as app for some platform like Amazon's Alexa.