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Ever get annoyed that the "click, click, click" of your
car's indicator when you're at an intersection
waiting to turn is out of time with the music you're
listening to on the radio? Worry no longer! The
beat-matching indicator contains hardware which analyses
the music being played over the radio
to match the
rhythm of the music to the clicking noise of your
indicator.
12 volt color organ
http://www.gibsonteched.net/9942.html
Just use the output from one channel of this. [half, Oct 21 2004]
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A lot of people already do (close to) this when they customize their cars. There are packages you can put in to a car to make the lights strobe with your music. I assume the same thing could be utilized with blinkers, since all they really are is lights with specialized timers. |
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I'm guessing Jason didn't want to
change the external appearance (it
may not even be legal to have
blinkers which don't blink in an
ordinary fashion). |
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Exactly. The indicator, or "blinker", must continue
to pulse in a regular fashion, in order not to confuse
fellow road users and to avoid breaking laws.
Furthermore, don't forget that the pulsing light is
accompanied by a "click, click" sound. The idea is
to match the sound to the beat of the music, not the
flashing of the light. |
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Could work well for windshield wipers, too. |
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I hadn't thought of that, but you're right of course.
Might present a few more technical issues (perhaps
you would have to change your musical listening
habits depending on how heavy the rain is). |
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That's what garage music is for!!! |
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Who says you can't (temporarily) reverse the wiper mid-swipe in tune to the music? |
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Note that you could also have the music on a delay loop, so that the wiper mechanism can detect the beat sufficiently in advance to get things moving. |
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Should be a pretty easy adaptation of a "color organ" if anyone really cared to bake this. |
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