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Not a complete how to, but a start for making your own doorbell that plays a sound of your choice - "When the doorbell to our company office broke, my boss half-jokingly suggested we replace it with one that could play WAVs. We didn't find a doorbell with the capability of playing WAVs ... but we found one that had a built-in microphone and could record its own chimes. Armed with a soldering iron, my colleague Mark and I set about bending Funki Tech to our will." Thanks Paul! Link.
The doorbell that plays WAVs
Not a complete how to, but a start for making your own doorbell that plays a sound of your choice - "When the doorbell to our company office broke, my boss half-jokingly suggested we replace it with one that could play WAVs. We didn't find a doorbell with the capability of playing WAVs ... but we found one that had a built-in microphone and could record its own chimes. Armed with a soldering iron, my colleague Mark and I set about bending Funki Tech to our will." Thanks Paul! Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Dec 7, 2005 05:47 AM
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While it might be overkill, you could use the CF Sound II. It's a CompactFlash-based audio player that has a couple of pushbutton inputs that you could use for the front and back doorbell buttons. These are the audio players that are often used in the homebrew R2-D2s that were featured in MAKE:
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Of course, the next step in the project is to add a fingerprint reader to the doorbell button and play different sounds depending on who is knocking.
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