Hello all kind and benevolent electronics gurus!
I have worked as a bench tech, and went to school for electronics however that was well over a decade ago. I have spent the better part of 20 years designing and building loudspeakers, mastering the understanding of analog filtering, understanding amplification topographies, as well as DAC/ADC workings. While there is a foundation there, I have not been much of a tinkerererrr (?) and my career has led to more of a field service work in refrigeration rather than electronics.
One of my favorite hobbies is an outdoor, worldwide scavenger hunt called Geocaching (www.geocaching.com). I am on a quest to integrate unique electronic circuits and puzzles into the containers which the hunters find. The main challenges of these designs will be the following:
1) Outdoor robostness
2) Low static power consumption
3) Low current while in operation/must run off a 9V batteries at most, multiple smaller cells acceptable.
4) Must be small to fit in hide-able containers.
I am old fashion, and most of what I have dealt with is analog. In many ways - the robustness is hard to beat (IMHO), however to build a logic circuit out of a hand full of gates on a breadboard just seems absurd for these applications. Arduino seems a bit of an overkill so for the more complex ideas I am unsure how to proceed. I will try to contribute as much as I can though it may not be much, how I WILL contribute is by starting threads which showcase the projects as I do them in hopes I can help/inspire others for theirs. I am not looking for things to be designed for me, rather a "try this/look here" approach so I am not randomly spit-balling. Here is the first relative conundrum:
I am looking to make a sort of sequence lock. The pattern can be fixed so it does not require "programming" (there's that silly gate talk again), and the output can be a positive trigger as to "push a button". 4-6 "buttons" is all, and just some patters such as "1-2-5-3-4-6" will fire the trigger. Any ideas where I can start?
Thank you in advance for any help and I look forward to finally getting back into electronics!
Warmest,
SDG
I have worked as a bench tech, and went to school for electronics however that was well over a decade ago. I have spent the better part of 20 years designing and building loudspeakers, mastering the understanding of analog filtering, understanding amplification topographies, as well as DAC/ADC workings. While there is a foundation there, I have not been much of a tinkerererrr (?) and my career has led to more of a field service work in refrigeration rather than electronics.
One of my favorite hobbies is an outdoor, worldwide scavenger hunt called Geocaching (www.geocaching.com). I am on a quest to integrate unique electronic circuits and puzzles into the containers which the hunters find. The main challenges of these designs will be the following:
1) Outdoor robostness
2) Low static power consumption
3) Low current while in operation/must run off a 9V batteries at most, multiple smaller cells acceptable.
4) Must be small to fit in hide-able containers.
I am old fashion, and most of what I have dealt with is analog. In many ways - the robustness is hard to beat (IMHO), however to build a logic circuit out of a hand full of gates on a breadboard just seems absurd for these applications. Arduino seems a bit of an overkill so for the more complex ideas I am unsure how to proceed. I will try to contribute as much as I can though it may not be much, how I WILL contribute is by starting threads which showcase the projects as I do them in hopes I can help/inspire others for theirs. I am not looking for things to be designed for me, rather a "try this/look here" approach so I am not randomly spit-balling. Here is the first relative conundrum:
I am looking to make a sort of sequence lock. The pattern can be fixed so it does not require "programming" (there's that silly gate talk again), and the output can be a positive trigger as to "push a button". 4-6 "buttons" is all, and just some patters such as "1-2-5-3-4-6" will fire the trigger. Any ideas where I can start?
Thank you in advance for any help and I look forward to finally getting back into electronics!
Warmest,
SDG
