Re: [LAU] Re: [linux-audio-user] Create high-pitch noises like the mosquito device

From: Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Apr 03 2007 - 20:15:28 EEST

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 03:58:48PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
>
>
> listreader wrote:
> > Robin Gareus wrote:
> >> listreader wrote:
> >>> [..]
> >>> Whats good software in linux to generate certain frequencies?
> >>
> >> judging from your motivation I can't say if it's /good software/, but
> >> "xmms" is avail. for many linux-distros:
> >> [..]
> >
> > My motivation?! What? I didn't say anything about why I wanted to copy
> > that device. I think it's a cool exercise.
>
> sorry, if my comment was a ambiguous. If you've got some more time to
> exercise, it's easy to do a hardware implementation - it's called
> "astable multivibrator" take a battery, two Transistors a Cap and few
> Resistors,... - eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivibrator - for a
> more professional approach, follow the NE555 IC idea. radio-shack sells
> those..
>

I had good luck using Schmidt triggers to make quick-and-dirty square-wave oscillators for testing purposes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmitt_trigger

Very cheap and simple: one chip, a resistor, and a cap, IIRC.

- -ken
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFGEouwe8HF+6xeOIcRAsADAJwILYYa9uERy/0n1/kgalvYEjGNqACgsjKO
C2MoE5zS9BXqk1NLGoXScVw=
=2M/c
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
Received on Wed Apr 4 00:15:02 2007

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Wed Apr 04 2007 - 00:15:02 EEST