Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Ingenuity beats pesky problems


After being plagued with problems from yesterday's testing, we met up again today to see what we could do. The first thing we did was try to find a more appropriate place to mount the setup so that it stationary and unimpeded. When searching for a perfect spot we managed to solve more than one problem at the same time. First of all, based on the design of the setup, its quite apparent that mounting it to the roof would be ideal. Lucky for us, there was an available spot on the roof of my basement. This spot happened to be located right next to an air duct. When considering that the emitting sound was a little too quiet, the idea of using the air duct as an amplifier came to mind. This new setup was not only perfectly stationary, but the sound was amplified quite a significant amount.

Also, tampering around with computer software in place of the guitar tuner looks to be the better alternative. Certain software is able to isolate the primary frequency and ignore any external noise pollution, which makes it a much more practical choice.

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