Author Topic: Flashable doorbell (Read 5494 times)

SirPoonga · « **Reply #40 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:16:09 pm »

I thought I remembered seeing something on digg.
http://iain.cx/articles/doorbell/

http://www.compuphase.com/mp3player_en.htm
Probably a little over kill but you'd just need to add a short song.

"Use switches to select tracks and settings: either one track per switch or have switches to move forward and backward through the tracks; a switch press can start playing a track, or the device may keep playing as long as a switch is being held down. You may also choose to play a random track, so that the audio effect is different each time that a user pushes the buttons."

So you could have it play a random song. Setup a timing circuit and you can have it only play like 5 seconds at a time.

"The digital I/O pins of the H0420 can drive LEDs or opto-couplers. There is intrinsic support for displaying output to an LCD."

Stingray · « **Reply #41 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:17:00 pm »

Quote

I've rarely laughed that hard in my whole life.

<homer>Heh heh heh. It's funny 'cause I don't know him</homer>

-S

SirPoonga · « **Reply #42 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:18:33 pm »

Quote from: c64rulez on December 16, 2005, 11:42:35 am

I want purple stars

Here's a picture of me, last summer, great trip to morrocco

This is not a dating service.

ChadTower · « **Reply #43 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:18:56 pm »

Hrm... to go further... the doorbell would play any sound file I choose, and a webcam could display a feed of the area by the doorbell on the LCD...

...it's doorbell ID.

Stingray · « **Reply #44 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:21:21 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on December 16, 2005, 12:18:56 pm

Hrm... to go further... the doorbell would play any sound file I choose, and a webcam could display a feed of the area by the doorbell on the LCD...

...it's doorbell ID. I like it.

Yeh, that's pretty much what I had in mind. Sounds so cool that I'd do it myself but I live so far out in the middle of nowhere that I rarely have unexpected visitors. All unexpected visitors are greeted with the business end of a pistol, so I don't really need to know who's out there.

-S

ChadTower · « **Reply #45 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:23:10 pm »

Ah keeps ma pistol in ma underpants.

Stingray · « **Reply #46 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:25:02 pm »

You wear underpants even when you're at home? Man, life sure is fancy up north.

-S

ChadTower · « **Reply #47 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:26:04 pm »

It keeps the furniture clean.

Stingray · « **Reply #48 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:29:36 pm »

You have furniture?

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ChadTower · « **Reply #49 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:32:49 pm »

The wife likes to sit when she's tired.

Stingray · « **Reply #50 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:33:52 pm »

And a rolled up newspaper isn't good enough for her? Snob.

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ChadTower · « **Reply #51 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:34:49 pm »

I lost that argument about a door too.

Gotta admit, though, it's a lot cheaper to heat the place now that we have a door.

Stingray · « **Reply #52 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:37:05 pm »

You have heat?

-S

ChadTower · « **Reply #53 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:38:00 pm »

Had to have it so she could try out that book thing someone gave her:

How To Cook Humans

Stingray · « **Reply #54 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:47:15 pm »

The full title is "How to Cook Forty Humans" I think.

-S

ChadTower · « **Reply #55 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:48:06 pm »

Dammit I was hoping you'd give the intermediate joke.

Stingray · « **Reply #56 on:** December 16, 2005, 12:49:37 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on December 16, 2005, 12:48:06 pm

Dammit I was hoping you'd give the intermediate joke.

Sorry, I guess I didn't read today's script very well.

-S

c64rulez · « **Reply #57 on:** December 16, 2005, 01:04:28 pm »

ok, I've never been so bored in my entire life

I think I'll post a few new ones just for the heck of it

Havok · « **Reply #58 on:** December 16, 2005, 01:11:41 pm »

Man - I read this whole thread and was waiting to see pics of a chick that flashes you at the front door...

RetroJames · « **Reply #59 on:** December 16, 2005, 01:12:16 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on December 16, 2005, 10:41:25 am

So, the doorbell on my house has been nonworking the entire time we've owned it. I'd like to change that.

But, as a BYOAC member, I can't have just any old DING DONG doorbell. I want one that is cool.

Has anyone ever seen one with flashable memory? Kind of like ringtones but for your doorbell? I was thinknig I could change the sound every few months so I don't get sick of it.

I want a doorbell that screams like Tom from Tom + Jerry.

Here ya go boss

http://www.retroblast.com/newsitem.php?cid=159


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