Cheetah just saved me some bucks (and some work!), but I like the idea of buying some of these gizmos and getting beeper/buzzer and maybe other sounds out of them. Maybe for next Halloween...
Best, Joe Monks Every day you haven't written is a day you've written off... Chanting Monks Press http://www.chantingmonks.com Sight Unseen Pictures http://www.sightunseenpictures.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 10:41 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Things that beep? > Check Radio Shack. You can get the parts to build your own. Get a small > kit box and they have the beepers or buzzers as well. Then you could get > a transformer to run them all at the same time. Don't have a price on a > transformer right now but you could do the whole project for under a > hundred. If a transformer is too pricey use a small automotive battery > charger and clip the wires into the alligator clips for power. > > Or you can opt for the electric fence! That works for horses... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Chanting Monks > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 10:33 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Things that beep? > > > The wife suggested one of those invisible fences and the dog collar, but > I > think I prefer the foam padded posts. :) > > Yesterday, I spoke to the customer service reps at Crutchfield, which has > always been very good. My bottom of the barrel price for the wireless > speakers would be a couple of hundred bucks. With Christmas coming and > nobody ever knowing what to get me, seems I might be adding speaker wire > and > some inexpensive indoor/outdoor speakers to my wish list and go from > there. > After searching Target, Wal Mart and Radio Shack, we couldn't find any > small, transistor sized radios. I could hang four dirt-cheap boom boxes > out > there, but I run into the price of batteries again. I think I may wind up > ordering some inexpensive speakers, running the speaker wire along the > bottom fence rail in 1 inch PVC pipe to protect it from weather and > animals, > and going that route. I had thought I might be able to find some beeper > devices for ten bucks that took triple or double A batteries and live > with > that temporarily, but so far, no dice. > > Best, > Joe Monks > > Every day you haven't written is a day you've written off... > > Chanting Monks Press > http://www.chantingmonks.com > > Sight Unseen Pictures > http://www.sightunseenpictures.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 1:53 PM > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Things that beep? > > > Joe, > > > > Wouldn't a few inexpensive radios be a bit more enjoyable, rather than > > listening to insessant beeping? > > > > You could also investigate wireless speakers. But they are a bit > spendy. > > > > You can just foam pad the corners and run into them. *GRIN* > > > > > > -- > > Blue skies. > > Dan Rossi > > Carnegie Mellon University > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
