gabriel rosenkoetter on Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:58:17 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Back on April Fool's Day...


On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:52:05PM -0400, Will Dyson wrote:
> Pretty cool hack. But I'm really curious how you reprogrammed the clock 
> tower. How is it controlled?

Not as intelligently as I'd hoped.

The control mechanism is, of course, not up in the tower, but in a
closet off of a publicly-accessible student space right next to the
tower. With the hinges on the outside of the door. ;^>

The control unit itself doesn't allow you to just program in a new
sequence (lots of four-tone songs that would have been fun... Jingle
Bells was, I think, what I was planning); you can set it for three
or four pre-programmed chimes, test a specific bell, or put the
system in "test mode", which just rings all the bells at random
until you tell it to stop.

So, we inversed the order of the wiring from the control unit to
each of the solenoids. Worked well enough. :^>

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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