This bird’s brain is an Arduino Nano, which is protected from the 12V supply with a boost converter. As you might expect, the sounds are on an SD card and played through a DF Player Mini.

Tested on an Arduino Nano, there are plenty of resources left for extra code for example running RGB LEDs, an LCD display or even a touchscreen. About An arduino-based MP3 player using the DFPlayer ...

I am trying to connect DFPlayer to Arduino Nano 33 IoT. I believe I cannot use SoftwareSerial there, but can use HardwareSerial Serial1, connection TX-RX and RX-TX. I also use external power supply ...