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| Thread ID: 74288 | 2006-11-17 08:23:00 | Devices to Assist in Workplace | csinclair83 (200) | PC World Chat |
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| 499936 | 2006-11-17 08:23:00 | Hey guys! Been a while since I've been here. I am here as I want to ask for ideas or advice. As most of u know I'm Deaf, I'm currently working part time for a engraving company, and its fine part time as there are other workers in the room, but I want to work there full time, which would mean working alone in that room for nearly 75% of the day. And this is a job I really want to take on and acheive at. What I'd like ideas/advice on is, what can help me "hear" the sounds? There are machines that cut/engrave various things like plastic, metal, ali etc. I would be required to hear when that machine plays up so I can stop it before it jams everything and burns out the motor etc, and it sadly doesnt have a automatic stop function unless the programmed task is finished. I've considered a small device that alerts me when theres a increase in DB sounds (connect a db sensor to a scrobe light for example) so i know theres a problem and stop the machine and investigate... But there are also background noises which could hinder this idea. (background noises like fans, another machine screwing up, people talking) I am currently applying for hearing aids so maybe they'd work but I'd love some ideas please on what other things I could use, either available to buy or would need to buy components and wire them together? I've looked on alot of websites for nz technology for deaf people, but many are only catered for doorbell, firealarms, phones ringing etc. Ideas I have so far are... DB sensor with scrobe light hearing aids vibrating timer (for a machine that heats things, set vibrator for 40 secs when the heating is for 45, gives me 5secs to get to that machine so i can shut it down) If you rather email me personally than reply on here, my email addy is c_sinclair@xtra.co.nz I'd love help here, it'd be awesome. |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 499937 | 2006-11-17 08:30:00 | First rule: Unless you want every piece of spam in existence, ask some kindly mod to remove the plaintext email address. Not a good idea. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 499938 | 2006-11-17 09:16:00 | Instead of a strobe light, could you feed each microphone to one input of an oscilloscope program running on an antique PC? The inputs feed into your sound card, are processed and show on the screen. I guess you would soon recognize the normal pattern. With the monitor at one end of the room, and a curved mirror at the other end you can see it from wherever you happen to be working. Good luck with your endeavours :) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 499939 | 2006-11-17 09:24:00 | Dick smith once had a sound to light kit which was just a microphone hooked up to 4 LED's. When you made a noise into the mike, it lit up the LED's and you had a variable resistor to alter how loud the sound had to be to make the light go off. This is more or less what it looked like... www.skycraftsurplus.com Actually it might have been that one, Velleman kitset... yes it was that one |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 499940 | 2006-11-17 10:32:00 | I'll remove it at csinclair83s request.... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 499941 | 2006-11-18 22:38:00 | Sorry guys had too much work lately! no time for me! Thanks heaps for your ideas and will look into them more, we are actually looking into purchasing a better machine that would work better for me, but just a matter of when, and cost and all that, so in that case would not want to spend up large on short term fixs, will be going into dicks smith about that idea and see what they have. But would love more ideas if possible :) Thanks heaps so far btw that email address, its ok, as its a alias, so i can delete it if spam increases....but so far no spam so all is good. |
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