Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Museum wireless doorbell thingamajig
In this day of IoT, this could be a FUN project Martin Flynn offered
Waveware SPS-5 transmitter with 4 pagers.
That should be perfect! Pagers are retro. 4 of them mean some will always be charged and ready. But the master station needs serial input from something. Let's see - a pushbutton to the Raspberry Pi running the overhead video display, which ought to have motion and distance sensors to react to folks automatically. The "call button" could respond with a video - the cavalry is coming! Or one of a random assortment of science fiction talking computers such as the talking head from The Starlost or Red Dwarf. - the big red button on the Cray - setting the PiDP-8 console switches all "on" - the Apple ][ serial port card. Evans' Lego robot could entertain them while waiting. For movie trivia, have it say "My name is Rags! Woof woof woof" :-) -- jeffj
Jeff, The big red button on the Cray is an off-the shelf Square D 9001KR25R "operator" (pushbutton for everyone else in the world) If someone is up to the challenge, I have the green version 9001KR25G that I can donate to VCF. Martin On 12/29/2016 9:56 PM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
In this day of IoT, this could be a FUN project Martin Flynn offered
Waveware SPS-5 transmitter with 4 pagers. That should be perfect! Pagers are retro. 4 of them mean some will always be charged and ready.
But the master station needs serial input from something. Let's see
- a pushbutton to the Raspberry Pi running the overhead video display, which ought to have motion and distance sensors to react to folks automatically. The "call button" could respond with a video - the cavalry is coming! Or one of a random assortment of science fiction talking computers such as the talking head from The Starlost or Red Dwarf.
- the big red button on the Cray
- setting the PiDP-8 console switches all "on"
- the Apple ][ serial port card. Evans' Lego robot could entertain them while waiting. For movie trivia, have it say "My name is Rags! Woof woof woof" :-)
-- jeffj
I appreciate all the ideas. David G.'s tablet idea is the best one. I asked one of our members with Android development experience to see what he can do for us. He's looking into it.
The Cray needs a sign "Never press this big red button... Unless you need a docent". On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:10 PM Martin A Flynn via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Jeff,
The big red button on the Cray is an off-the shelf Square D 9001KR25R "operator" (pushbutton for everyone else in the world)
If someone is up to the challenge, I have the green version 9001KR25G that I can donate to VCF.
Martin
On 12/29/2016 9:56 PM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
In this day of IoT, this could be a FUN project Martin Flynn offered
Waveware SPS-5 transmitter with 4 pagers. That should be perfect! Pagers are retro. 4 of them mean some will always be charged and ready.
But the master station needs serial input from something. Let's see
- a pushbutton to the Raspberry Pi running the overhead video display, which ought to have motion and distance sensors to react to folks automatically. The "call button" could respond with a video - the cavalry is coming! Or one of a random assortment of science fiction talking computers such as the talking head from The Starlost or Red Dwarf.
- the big red button on the Cray
- setting the PiDP-8 console switches all "on"
- the Apple ][ serial port card. Evans' Lego robot could entertain them while waiting. For movie trivia, have it say "My name is Rags! Woof woof woof" :-)
-- jeffj
If someone is up to the challenge, I have the green version 9001KR25G that I can donate to VCF.
Thanks but we like the Android approach. It will allow us to speak with the visitor vs. them having to wait and see if anyone shows up.
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