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Anyone want to team up on a little fun hardware project? a 2xl tinypc toy

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mouser:
Some of you may know my 2xl simulator page: https://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/2XL/index.html

It's a flash-based recreation I made of an amazing little toy that i grew up with, which used 8 track tapes to create the illusion of a sentient little robot that told jokes and gave you quizes etc.  It was a brilliant little toy.

Just for fun, I was thinking of recreating it on one of those tiny-pc devices like a rasberry pi, arduino, etc.

I'm not much of a hardware person though, and i am hoping to find a hardware person who might put together the hardware and leave me to do the software.

I don't really have a preference for one kit or another, raspberry pi, arduino, whatever. But there are some requirements:
The device needs to have (at least) 4 buttons in a line , a speaker loud enough to hear the words, and a small lcd so that the user can scroll through carts to select.  ideally the lcd will be over the buttons so that it can be used to show button labels.

Ideally i'd like to rewrite the code in python or java -- and there has to be an mp3 playing library for the device (this is important).
And i has to be able to support a memory card with a few hundred mb of data files.

Ideally the less power the better, as it would be fun to make this battery operated.  But that's not a show stopper.

This is purely a for-fun project, no money to be made or fame to be hard.  If anyone is interested let me know?

Ath:
I'd just head over to Adafruit.com (no affiliation) and get me a kit of a Raspberry Pi 2, LCD display piggyback board and a prototyping/button set:


* RPi 2 Coder pack: http://www.adafruit.com/products/1538
* Display: http://www.adafruit.com/products/2097
* Buttons: http://www.adafruit.com/product/1775
* Keyboard/mouse: (anything you have laying around with an USB connection)
* Speakers: Just plug 'm into the 3.5mm audio out of the RPi
Most of it is to be programmed in Python, I think you can handle that ;D

ewemoa:
Have worked a bit with both an Arduino and a couple of Raspberry Pis, and at least from that background, what Ath says makes sense to me.

Ath:
Well, I've considered starting something using Arduino (years ago), but the 'you have to do everything yourself, including an OS' and the rather steep prices have kept me away.
Now there's the RPi family, that brings a complete PC with a complete OS and easy to add hardware interfaces for an affordable price, and I'm hooked :D

mouser:
I've underlined the important bit in my original message.  :P

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