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March 11, 2006
UBi.ach Hardware
The plan over break
Details of easy walkie talkies
Gilad: ubiach@gmail.com perl script into clipboard
To check every minute
Tracy and Min: Hacking into walkie talkies
Hack input and output
Output of the computer into the walkie talkie
Output into out speaker
Today, Tracy and I met up at ITP at noon to start our walkietalkie hacking.
Instead of using a MINI ITX, the EasyRadio, we figured out from Todd H that all we'd need was a walkietalkie. This part would be the part that would be needed for the doll to become wireless from the computer.
Went over to the big bad Kmart at Astor Place to find these cheap $20 WalkieTalkies, Model FV200 made by Motorola.
As soon as we opened up the walkietalkies, the first thing T says, "I HATE these switches!"
What we've been able to accomplish today
- hacked the power button on the walkie, 2 pins act as switches
- the audio input from the mic in the walkie #1 gets hooked up into audio in on the laptop, listens to the TTS software and transfers the sound into walkie #2
Diagram
During the SpringBreak week, Tracy and I will be working on the rest of the buttons on the walkie and try to fit in into a stuffed toy just to test it out.
Posted by min at March 11, 2006 05:13 PM