kvidell
August 18th, 2005, 07:46 AM
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/79be/
I'm of the opinion that that thing is ridiculously expensive for what it is, especially since it's "No Battery Included" AND shipping is extra.
It looks like a $2 Radio Shack project, and that's what I'm going to do.
Problem is I don't know circuitry.. At all.
My stepdad and I are going to try to make one ourselves from old parts out in the garage, but it would be a lot easier if we had a schematic.
He's good with electronics but we'll be making it up as we go along...
My task to you is this:
Draw up the circuitry and needed bits to do what that thing does for less than $25 :-P
What do you get out of it? You'll know how to make a distastefully annoying device and will have provided a fellow Ubuntuite with a couple hours of entertainment while he makes a couple dozen of them to annoy his friends with.
Plus all the other ubuntuites that will now know how to make them..
We can take over the world with annoying small beeping devices!
Go! Go my little electrical heads! Design! :-D
- Kev
From the ThinkGeek website:
A devious hide-and-seek game
The Mind Molester is an instrument of creative electronic harassment. It is an electronic device that can drive your victims a little crazy trying to figure out what it is and where it's located. Your friends/enemies will become obsessed, awaiting the next chirp trying to determine its location, completely disrupting their normal activities.
Just connect this device to a 9-volt battery and plant it in an appropriate location. It produces a one-second electronic chirp about once every 3 minutes. Due to the chirp's duration, frequency, and sound characteristics, it's a very difficult, time-consuming, frustrating and maddening task to locate the unit. And even if they find it, they'll have no idea what it is. The number of effective locations to plant the Mind Molester is limited only by your imagination. Of course, this device is for use on deserving subjects only.
Also has these features.
* First beep cycle is about 5 minutes, then every 3 minutes
* No identifying marks
* Requires 9-volt battery (not included)
* Chirp frequency: 2000Hz
* Dimensions: 2" x 1"
I'm of the opinion that that thing is ridiculously expensive for what it is, especially since it's "No Battery Included" AND shipping is extra.
It looks like a $2 Radio Shack project, and that's what I'm going to do.
Problem is I don't know circuitry.. At all.
My stepdad and I are going to try to make one ourselves from old parts out in the garage, but it would be a lot easier if we had a schematic.
He's good with electronics but we'll be making it up as we go along...
My task to you is this:
Draw up the circuitry and needed bits to do what that thing does for less than $25 :-P
What do you get out of it? You'll know how to make a distastefully annoying device and will have provided a fellow Ubuntuite with a couple hours of entertainment while he makes a couple dozen of them to annoy his friends with.
Plus all the other ubuntuites that will now know how to make them..
We can take over the world with annoying small beeping devices!
Go! Go my little electrical heads! Design! :-D
- Kev
From the ThinkGeek website:
A devious hide-and-seek game
The Mind Molester is an instrument of creative electronic harassment. It is an electronic device that can drive your victims a little crazy trying to figure out what it is and where it's located. Your friends/enemies will become obsessed, awaiting the next chirp trying to determine its location, completely disrupting their normal activities.
Just connect this device to a 9-volt battery and plant it in an appropriate location. It produces a one-second electronic chirp about once every 3 minutes. Due to the chirp's duration, frequency, and sound characteristics, it's a very difficult, time-consuming, frustrating and maddening task to locate the unit. And even if they find it, they'll have no idea what it is. The number of effective locations to plant the Mind Molester is limited only by your imagination. Of course, this device is for use on deserving subjects only.
Also has these features.
* First beep cycle is about 5 minutes, then every 3 minutes
* No identifying marks
* Requires 9-volt battery (not included)
* Chirp frequency: 2000Hz
* Dimensions: 2" x 1"