Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-12-05 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 08:48:17PM -0600, James Simmons wrote: A telephone receiver would be better for listening to the signal than trying to use an XO as an amplifier. Yes. It's kinda like I've got an XO, what can I do with it, and we have a solution (the XO) that we are looking for a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-12-04 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:41 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Hi all Its been suggested that the XO could be turned into a crystal radio. Any suggestions of an easy way to get data from the microphone socket to the speaker? Tony ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-12-04 Thread forster
Interesting...can you elaborate? (crystal radio was a childhood obsession of mine...) Sameer see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors#The_XO_as_an_audio_amplifier I was able to build a crystal radio from XO, wire, cardboard, plastic sheet and foil

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-12-04 Thread James Simmons
I built a crystal radio as a kid. As I remember it, you make a razor-blade diode by laying the razor flat and using the point of a safety pin as the cat's whisker. The book I read this in was similar to this article on foxhole radios:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-12-01 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tony, On 1 Dec 2010, at 07:41, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Hi all Its been suggested that the XO could be turned into a crystal radio. Any suggestions of an easy way to get data from the microphone socket to the speaker? There must be a nicer way than this (using the csound python

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-12-01 Thread forster
Thanks Gary quick and dirty is good I will try it Tony Hi Tony, On 1 Dec 2010, at 07:41, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Hi all Its been suggested that the XO could be turned into a crystal radio. Any suggestions of an easy way to get data from the microphone socket to the speaker?

[Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-11-30 Thread forster
Hi all Its been suggested that the XO could be turned into a crystal radio. Any suggestions of an easy way to get data from the microphone socket to the speaker? Tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org