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lordnacho:
My son(3 1/2) wanted to be a ghost for halloween, so I suggested a Pac Man ghost.  Now he wants to be Pac Man. 
While I don't have much time to work on it, I can't turn this down.  I snagged a couple used foam posterboard from work, so I cut some circles out of.  Have to get some felt this weekend.  Will be making a ghost costume for my daugher(20 mos), pink I guess or maybe blue cause she does like to bite my son :)

So was thinking how I can integrate some Pac Man sounds.  I have a couple old iPhones I could attach.  Was looking at the iPhone SDK last night to make a quick app.  A couple buttons or something and play sounds.  I'm a developer so I thought it would be easy to crank something out, but looks like I have to read about it.  Running low on time, so I'm looking for any other suggestions.

yaksplat:
Why not take some soundbytes and merge them into an mp3 with some gaps just to create some random timings?

not controllable, but it'll get the same point across.

ChadTower:

Battery powered speakers, make an mp3 of about 45 seconds of Pac sounds, and play it looping.  You don't need special controls or anything.  I have done this before for a few costumes.  The reality is that trick or treating only brings you into contact with most people for a minute or two.  After that some other kid comes up and they forget they even saw yours. 

Yaksplat's idea is good, too, if you want the sound to not be continuous.  A constant Pac loop might get annoying to the people walking around with you.

BTW, I made my son a Pac costume when he was small.  It was actually a cardboard box that I had cut the corners off to make round.  I covered it in yellow construction paper for the Pac and black paper for the mouth.  It looked really good but the kid had trouble walking on stairs because he couldn't see down over the front of the box.  I imagine if he fell, it might have been ugly, because he might have rolled away down the stairs.   ;D

lordnacho:
Thanks, mp3 sounds like a good idea.  Any sort of interactivty and the phone would have to be visible and the kids may pummel him trying to touch the buttons.  Buttons to kids are like brains to zombies.  May skip on the speakers though, as he may not be able to lug them around too far(I won't be there for his daycare parade).

Not sure we'll actually go trick or treating, maybe a few neighbors that we know.  We live in NYC, works a little different here.  In the burbs you can tell who welcomes the kids.  We do get some trick or treaters, but we do hang up stuff on our apt door. 
Instead there's a party in the center of the complex and they'll be worn out from that the games and stuff.   Mostly elevators here, so don't have to worry too much about them rolling down stairs :)

ChadTower:

You could mount the phone inside the costume so that only your kid has access to it.  I did that the year I made my son a Speak and Spell costume.  Inside the box had a backpack on with speakers in it.  There was a real Speak and Spell mounted on the inside of the box so he could press any buttons he wanted.  The speakers were LOUD, too.  People loved it. 

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