[vcf-midatlantic] Museum wireless doorbell thingamajig

[Martin A Flynn]

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