chris@zorin.UUCP (Christopher Nielsen) (01/28/89)
I am in the process of considering/designing my own car alarm. I have a few
suitable computers (RS model 100, AIM 65, KIM) sitting around, and I'm
also looking at units available, sensors, etc.
Topic for discussion...
I would be interested in anyone's experience with:
ignition kill
thieves managing to disable alarms
cheapo alarms that didn't work
shock sensors
glass break (sound discriminators)
backup battery systems
remote radio (arm/disarm) units
paging units
... and other clever additions to the basic theme of home brew auto security.
Christopher A. Nielsen
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[Question on home brew auto security] I've always wondered what it would be like to have a hidden wireless microphone in the car which would record anything that took place while being broken into - voices, power tools, etc. If it was hooked up to a loudspeaker, you could hear it at night when your car is unattended and it could be hooked up to a tape recorder in case the theives say each others names. Of course, if it's a lone theif, he won't do much talking, but may leave other clues. Perhaps a hidden video camera would be possible? Just a thought. Rich
hundt@paul.rutgers.edu (Thomas M. Hundt) (01/31/89)
When you build yours, please *don't* have it sound the horn when the remote activates the thing. That's so annoying, hearing this "blurp" noises all the time. (At 105 dB no less.) I'd like to have knockout gas spew forth from the dashboard when would-be thieves break into my car (ala Mission Impossible) :-) (Of course I probably would then be sued...) If someone really wants to take your car, they will. They come over with one of these flatbed towtrucks, and away they go. -- RRRRRR Thomas M. Hundt (aka hundt@occlusal.rutgers.edu) RR RR Gradual Student --- Electrical & Computer Engineering RR RR Rutgers University 201/932-5843(Lab) RRRRR 272 Hamilton St. #96 201/247-6723(H) RR RR New Brunswick, NJ 08901 RRR RRR Famous last words: "The virus ate it."