[geeks] Doorbells

[Phil Stracchino]

Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:15:32 -0400
> Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:
> 
>> One of projects on my list is to make a network enabled, MP3 playing
>> doorbell.
> Rube Goldberg machine.
> 
> What is wrong with a little transformer, a simple switch, sone wire and a
> real bell? A few $ and you get a solution as simple and robust.

Basically nothing except that they're all but impossible to get any 
more, meaning you have to fab your own bell.  It's been on my long-term 
projects list "for when we have a house of our own again" for years.  I 
was hoping for a simple stopgap before the POS we have now drives us crazy.


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