Flipbook with sound, (deluxe).
This is part III of a DIY flipbook series.
PART 1: creating the basic flip book
PART 2: adding sound to your flip book
PART 3: flipbook film deluxe
This shows how to make a flipbook with sound (deluxe). Aluminum housing for your sound module, push button & title page. This made an excellent gift. See Part I for info on how to make the basic flipbook, and Part II for some sound suggestions.
CREATING A FLIP BOOK (PART III, DELUXE!)
STEP 1. Dismantling the sound module.
This step-by-step is in reference to the stuffed animal sound module. You can also keep the module intact, and mount it “as is” but here’s the more involved route.
1. Twist and remove white cap.
2.Using an exacto knife, peel back hot glue holding the speaker in.
3. remove white rubber push button & carefully scrape back coating to expose switch leads.
4. carefully solder insulated wire to exposed switch leads. (I used a normally open push button switch from radio shack).
STEP2. sound module housing.
For this I used 1/16 aluminum sheet available at most hardware and arts and crafts stores. I measured and sawed out a rectangle, then filed it (very important!). I drilled out holes for the speaker and the push button switch. Then I scored where the bends would be and bent it into a c-shape.
(I recommend mocking this up in cardboard first, before you take the time to do it in aluminum). A simpler version is to just cut two smaller aluminum rectangles, and keep the existing “stuffed animal” sound module housing without dismantling.
…but on to the fancier version! Once you have your drilled and bent C-shape, clamp it around your flip book pages and drill two holes for your screws. Do this very carefully so as to keep all your pages aligned. If they do become a little misaligned, you might have to make another trip to kinko’s to get the flip side re-chopped.
STEP3.
Assembly!
1. run leads out through switch hole.
2. affix pcb portion
3. solder leads to push button switch
4. glue in push button switch.
5. Insert screws and tighten to bind the pages and connect the housing!
Enjoy!
Please share your projects, as well as any tips/methods/ideas/variations you come across.
Hi Emma,
I had an idea. What if your flip book sound effect was triggered by the actual flipping of the book the way some greeting cards play sounds when they are opened.
That’s a good idea, would just have to reconcile the way one opens a greeting card v. a flipbook. I’ve been thinking it would be cool too to do a sound playback that syncs with the speed you flip at…
La idea de la tarjeta es buena pero me parece mas cool el tener q apretar un boton lo tiene mucho mas sentimiento mucho mas feeling … i suposed
Remember in terminator 2 when that guy had the bomb that was triggered when the switch was released. Maybe a circuit like that would work. When you bend the book back, that pushes the trigger and when you release the first page that releases the trigger. You could use one of those bendy variable resistors to work with the bending of the book. I like the sync to flip speed idea.
Cool idea. I own a company that makes taking printed promotions. I had put together something similar using a light sensor as a trigger. When the first page is flipped open it senses the light and starts playback of the message. A regular “slider switch” module used in greeting cards will not work because the first page (or trigger page) has to be open (at least 90 degrees) for the duration of the playback.
Anyways cool idea. We ourselves could not get past the problem of “syncing” the sound with the flipbook playback. The problem is, people flip the book at different speeds so if you need tight syncing (is speech synced with lip movement) it can present a problem.
BTW: What software did you use? I had to come up with process to convert the video clip to images. Then I created a database with the image file names. And finally created a VDP (variable data publishing/printing) job to print the flipbook.
@ Ed
Cool site! I wish I had seen it earlier, I’ll def check http://www.bigdawgspromo.com next time I’m looking for bare sound modules. In my post http://thescienceofcraft.com/?p=4 I talk about software to set up the frames. Focusviewer was one I thought might be most accessible for people, though I prefer doing batch editing and contact sheets in Photoshop (though there’s still probably a better way, a good batch setup isn’t bad). I got in a little trouble with one person who didn’t see my note about getting books made for you at flipclips.com. I’ve also tried getting books printed then chopped for mass production which sort of worked except for some cracking on the outer book finish in the guillotine.
@ed & eben
yes the synching sound still eludes me. The tricky part is you can’t really calculate the speed via the flex of the book, it also depends on you slowly or quickly you move your thumb across the page edge. I’m thinking it would have to be some sort of sensor that can sit a millimeter or 2 above the top of the book near the spine and calculate progress through some sort of sensing mechanism…
@all
flipbook exhibition in Paris this October. Mine will be one of many of collector’s in the show. Wish I could go… will post more info when I get it.
You must indoctrinate people to flip at the same pace. It’s the only way they’ll learn.
lol! btw, finished up an updated version of this flipbook for a collector http://flipbook.info/blog.php
I made the module removeable just in case, and the storage box clamps down on the paper to keep it flat, had a bit of curling with the photo paper cover. I suppose one of the cranking ones Pascal has here http://flipbook.info/feuilleteurs.php would be the ideal to do synched sound. Oh and Ed, I did get some big dawgs modules, (didn’t end up using them for this flip) but very nice!
Oh yeah, just like a jack in the box where the sound is controlled by how fast you crank it.