Applause sensor???

[Giacomo17]

Hey folks. totally not an ableton question. just sound tech related, so I thought I'd run it by you all. had an idea that won't leave my brain: I want to setup a little sensor of some kind by my front door. I wanted it to trigger the sound of applause whenever someone walked in the front door, like we lived in a sitcom. any ideas?

I was thinking: some cheap little, single note MIDI trigger device that can hook up to some cheap, portable sampler.

[yur2die4]

I'd look into Arduino and use some kind of light sensor perhaps

[slatepipe]

Yup, arduino and an IR sensor would do it. I haven't used one for a few years but that's what I'd do. Then into max msp or max for live....