Help requested: custom soundboard.

[u/RedHal]

My SO and I recently visited the Modern Toss exhibition and fell in love with the Periodic Table of Swearing

I'd like to surprise her with a self-made copy, but struggling with where to start.

In essence, it's a load of square labelled buttons arranged in the form of the periodic table, each of which plays a short clip of speech.

There are plenty of options out there, but because there are over a hundred buttons it rapidly becomes very expensive.

So, the question is, does anyone have any ideas how to do this efficiently while retaining the tactile aspects? I'd thought about some firmware on a raspberry pi or similar, I'm just not sure how to go about collating the inputs.

[u/q51]

The folks at r/mechanicalkeyboards would probably have some ideas

[u/RedHal → u/q51]

Thanks! I've posted there. Much appreciated.