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- From: technews@iitmax.iit.edu (Kevin Kadow)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Knock Sensor (as in "on a door")
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.220623.13010@iitmax.iit.edu>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 22:06:23 GMT
- Organization: Technology News, IIT, Chicago, IL
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- I tried this experiment when I first read (in Popular electronics) about
- using capacitors in place of piezo disks for electronic drums.
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- Basically, what I wanted to do was rig a device that could be
- mounted to the INSIDE of a 1.5" wooden door, and when somebody knocks on the
- OUTSIDE, it produces a sound...
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- e.g.:
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- Knock. TICK
- Knock. TICK (they knock, it makes a much louder TICK! or whatever.
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- I managed to get it to work, but only if the sensor was on the outside
- and one knocked directly on it- not much better than a doorbell. what could I
- use as a sensor that will work on the inside to detect a "normal" knock?
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