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- From: bender@oobleck (Duke of Canterbury)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: White noise generator.....
- Date: 28 Jul 1992 08:28:19 GMT
- Organization: SPARK's R US
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- John Hull writes...
-
- : I'm one of those people who has to have some "white noise" in the background
- : to sleep. Something like a fan, or rain on the roof, or wind in the trees,
- : something like that.
- :
- : [my device that I use at home is big and bulky and] trying to carry it on a
- : camping trip or on quick out-of-town trips is a drag. Some motels have room
- : air conditions which serve the purpose, but not always.
- :
- : Anyway...finally....it seems to me that if there is a sound-generator chip
- : available, that a little portable unit could be made, which would run on
- : ni-cad batteries (so that it could be recharged), with a small speaker such
- : as is found in a cheap transistor radio.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- I think that you may have answered your own question - if you can live with
- the simple white noise produced by FM interstation hiss, you could buy a
- small, cheap FM transistor radio and use that on your trips.
-
- mike
-
- --
- The IQ requirement for being a phone operator may be pretty low, but the
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