Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #08927
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Senior kyled@scruznet.com
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 16:41:17 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: SIMPLIFIED D1 CIRCUIT
You guys are awesome!
Just imagine, every night, you fall asleep to the murmur of Chirpers :)
Imagine 30 "Plummers" floating in a pond one night... Quite a show!
Kyle
Wilf Rigter wrote:
>
> Right-On that sonic D1 idea Richard! Another point to consider is that
> making sounds with a piezo speaker takes a lot less current than making
> lights with LEDs. So a combined audio-visual performance with the LEDs in
> sync with the "music" will not appreciably increase total supply current.
> Besides sound can be generated with the supply less than 1V, well below the
> point the LEDs go out.
>
> regards
>
> wilf
>
> ----------
> From: Richard Caudle
> To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Sent: 1/8/00 1:37:15 PM
> Subject: Re: SIMPLIFIED D1 CIRCUIT
>
> Evening Wilf (et al),
>
> You could also use sound as an initiating method. Instead of it being off
> for X number of minutes, it would be off until the sound level makes it
> activate. That way the operational time could be extended even more, with
> the possibility of making it through until the next morning so that the
> voltage level never makes it the the 'death' point. Put a battery and solar
> charger on it and you have a fully functional robot 90+% of the time!
>
> Just another HPV thingy insinuating itself into the conversation!
>
> Richard
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