Hi im a just starting electronics and i thought it would be cool to make a circuit that when you push a button a speaker or somthing plays a noise like a police car or a cow. :wink:
Try to search the forums here for "sound recording chip" or so, there have been discussions about this a few weeks back. It was an IC with a very simple interface that could both record, store and playback when connected to a microcontroller or simply a few pushbutton switches. It looked pretty easy.