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| Lord Buckeye... |
 Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 8:51 am |
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Bought this at a thrift store yesterday. Don't have a clue what it is.
Took it outside to get some photos of it and it starts making noise.
No plugs or jacks on the outside and what looks like a photoelectric
cell on the front. Obviously homemade. Any clues will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Monte
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| Jeff Liebermann... |
| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:05 pm |
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On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:51:23 -0800 (PST), Lord Buckeye
<l_buckeye at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
[quote]Bought this at a thrift store yesterday. Don't have a clue what it is.
Took it outside to get some photos of it and it starts making noise.
No plugs or jacks on the outside and what looks like a photoelectric
cell on the front. Obviously homemade. Any clues will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Monte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Ihytsr_1M
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I would guess a bird caller or ultrasonic mosquito repeller.
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| Baron... |
| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:29 pm |
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Lord Buckeye wrote:
[quote]Bought this at a thrift store yesterday. Don't have a clue what it is.
Took it outside to get some photos of it and it starts making noise.
No plugs or jacks on the outside and what looks like a photoelectric
cell on the front. Obviously homemade. Any clues will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Monte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Ihytsr_1M
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Duno, it sounds chirpy. :-)
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| propman... |
| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:12 pm |
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Lord Buckeye wrote:
[quote]Bought this at a thrift store yesterday. Don't have a clue what it is.
Took it outside to get some photos of it and it starts making noise.
No plugs or jacks on the outside and what looks like a photoelectric
cell on the front. Obviously homemade. Any clues will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Monte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Ihytsr_1M
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Seem to remember from a few years ago now, in some of the "101 Easy
Electronic Projects" flavoured magazines, a project that used a
photovoltaic cell (photo resistor??) to trigger an audio synth chip; the
rate at which it chirped depended on how much light was shining on it
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| Van Chocstraw... |
| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:01 pm |
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Lord Buckeye wrote:
[quote]Bought this at a thrift store yesterday. Don't have a clue what it is.
Took it outside to get some photos of it and it starts making noise.
No plugs or jacks on the outside and what looks like a photoelectric
cell on the front. Obviously homemade. Any clues will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Monte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Ihytsr_1M
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Solar powered cherper. |
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| Paul Hovnanian P.E.... |
| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:44 pm |
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Lord Buckeye wrote:
[quote]Bought this at a thrift store yesterday. Don't have a clue what it is.
Took it outside to get some photos of it and it starts making noise.
No plugs or jacks on the outside and what looks like a photoelectric
cell on the front. Obviously homemade. Any clues will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Monte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Ihytsr_1M
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Sounds like a solar powered noisemaker intended to emulate a bird. Probably
for scaring rodents or other animals away from a garden or similar place.
Just guessing.
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