ecarson
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Hope some of you who are hearing impaired can relate, or even those starting to lose it.
I recently started working with an EggTimer, and using an app on my iPod touch, I can see the little
buzzer on the EggTimer is beeping at around 4000 Hz. Well, I have severe hearing damage, and
I'm totally deaf above 3000 Hz. Even a hearing aid doesn't do me any good, because I'm completely
deaf above that frequency, so making it louder does nothing.
Oh, I can understand most speech, but many percussive stop consonants such as d, p, k, t, and others
all sound the same to me. i.e. when somebody says cat, pat, tat...all I hear is the "a" part. I rely on lip reading
to make up for what I lose in speech. I hate telephones, because I lose the visual cues. So there's that.
No problem with vision, thank goodness. The red and yellow LED's work fine, and I am already going to
solder in the yellow LED extension. However, the "buzzer" extension is what I would really like to use. The
manual states it must be a piezo element, meaning I probably should not hook an LED to that output.
At any rate, is there someway I can get a visual indication of the beeper sounding? When I finally get
this thing to the launch pad, with all the wind and other racket, I want to be able to verify the operation.
I believe launch noise, car engines, PA loudspeakers, and the like would frustrate my efforts there.
I have no idea if the iPod app will work outside with the unit inside an avbay, but indoors with the room
quiet it works OK to tell me the beeper is sounding.
Any suggestions?
I recently started working with an EggTimer, and using an app on my iPod touch, I can see the little
buzzer on the EggTimer is beeping at around 4000 Hz. Well, I have severe hearing damage, and
I'm totally deaf above 3000 Hz. Even a hearing aid doesn't do me any good, because I'm completely
deaf above that frequency, so making it louder does nothing.
Oh, I can understand most speech, but many percussive stop consonants such as d, p, k, t, and others
all sound the same to me. i.e. when somebody says cat, pat, tat...all I hear is the "a" part. I rely on lip reading
to make up for what I lose in speech. I hate telephones, because I lose the visual cues. So there's that.
No problem with vision, thank goodness. The red and yellow LED's work fine, and I am already going to
solder in the yellow LED extension. However, the "buzzer" extension is what I would really like to use. The
manual states it must be a piezo element, meaning I probably should not hook an LED to that output.
At any rate, is there someway I can get a visual indication of the beeper sounding? When I finally get
this thing to the launch pad, with all the wind and other racket, I want to be able to verify the operation.
I believe launch noise, car engines, PA loudspeakers, and the like would frustrate my efforts there.
I have no idea if the iPod app will work outside with the unit inside an avbay, but indoors with the room
quiet it works OK to tell me the beeper is sounding.
Any suggestions?