Custom startup chime fully working!

[Johns06yota]

For a while now I've wanted to make the startup chime customizable instead of the annoying toyota ding noise. I did a lot of research and found a way to accomplish this. For now when the key turns on it plays the startup chime once. It will not play again until the key is cycled. In the process I also removed the toyota dinger from the instrument cluster.

Here is a picture of the module I built. It runs off of 12 volts which is reduced to 5 for the logic board. This logic board connects to my computer via usb and I can load any mp3 file thats below 4 mb onto it. I specifically wired mine into my speaker amp so that the sound would play through the speakers.

The module itself tucks up under the dash until I want to connect to it to change the sound file. The logic board has a potentiometer to where I can adjust its gain for the output. this was needed as otherwise the output would be way too much for the signal going to the amp.

here is a video of it in action.

youtube.com/watch?v=0KNX-D1MIPU&feature=youtu.be

 

[riceandpho]

i havent seen the video yet, but it reminds me of this guy
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[Johns06yota]

i havent seen the video yet, but it reminds me of this guy
YouTube

haha yeah I have seen that before and it did give me some inspiration. I initially wanted to do something with the oem dinger but it only gets a pulsing voltage so it wouldnt work for this application. I still have a little work to do but I love how mine works as I can delete the old file and load a new one in about 30 sec with my computer. I even had it play toto africa for fun haha

 

[riceandpho]

haha yeah I have seen that before and it did give me some inspiration. I initially wanted to do something with the oem dinger but it only gets a pulsing voltage so it wouldnt work for this application. I still have a little work to do but I love how mine works as I can delete the old file and load a new one in about 30 sec with my computer. I even had it play toto africa for fun haha

whats the leds next to the rpm gauge, looks like the dei scanner led. i did mines on my pillars, you can see the vids on my channel.

 

[Johns06yota]

whats the leds next to the rpm gauge, looks like the dei scanner led. i did mines on my pillars, you can see the vids on my channel.

Whats your channel name? and its the sport mode I built cycling on. Heres a pic. Each of the leds represent the driving mode.

 

[riceandpho]

Whats your channel name? and its the sport mode I built cycling on. Heres a pic. Each of the leds represent the driving mode.

its the same name as my username, but i see the leds , it was reminding me of my scanning leds i have wired to my alarm.
for sounds, i want my truck to moan when i open the door, that should turn some heads.

 

[Johns06yota]

its the same name as my username, but i see the leds , it was reminding me of my scanning leds i have wired to my alarm.
for sounds, i want my truck to moan when i open the door, that should turn some heads.

lmao with this anything is possible haha. I just made it play old windows start up sounds a min ago lol