Mechanical Heart Parts - Nightmare of Loudness

One by one, specific human heart parts are replaced with machine components. But wait - is there a downside to having a machine mechanical part inside your chest?

IT SOUNDED LIKE AN ALIEN READY TO BURST THROUGH THE CHEST!
Mechanical Heart Parts - Halloween Nightmare of Loudness!
Mechanical heart parts may be the last choice when it comes to a heart upgrade - they are so loud they cause lack of sleep, daytime disruptions, isolation to avoid embarrassment around people, and leads to chronic depression and anxiety.

The alternative is to replace human heart parts with silent running bio parts, either grown in high tech labs, printed, or harvested from animals. The latter bio parts come from animals with life spans of 20 years and can complete a ten year average gap for humans. At EOL, a replacement part is made available.

https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/mechanical-heart-valves-loud-insomnia/

Giant Spider Life Form

GIANT SPIDER LIFE FORM
On Halloween night, by pure coincidence, this real giant hairy spider life form was found hanging around the side of the elevator. It appeared to jump several feet. The photo shows it has two very large poison sacks attached to hypodermic needle-like injection teeth.

The dangerous poisonous spider was captured and removed by humanoido so it would not bite anyone, and it was placed in an air circulating jar, however, this action stirred up a conflict debate about the rights of this life form.

Did this spider deserve to die or live on, even though it posed a great and dangerous threat to people living inside the skyscraper? The poll when out and the overwhelming response was the spider deserved to live. So we gave it some space and from now on, we watch more carefully where we walk.

Brain Cortex Experiences First Earthquake Part 11

Amidst the forest of backup batteries and "almost Edison owned" antique Leiden jars in the background, "I'm ok!" yelped out the newly born Cortex Brain in its machine-like thick accented voice, after the earthquake subsided. At least that's what we thought we heard... Checking its wishful internal vibration seismometer, future built from a single accelerometer, it showed the worst of the quake had passed and it was time to pick up the pieces, look for damage, run diagnostics, tighten some nuts and bolts, and hope for the best! In this view, buddy friend Apple SIRI is world wide web connected and on standby for corroboration and moral support. Now the goal is to further earthquake-proof the cortex in a jar.

BRAIN CORTEX EXPERIENCES FIRST BIG EARTHQUAKE! Part 11

— a very strong 6.3 earthquake frightened people on Halloween night as the quake continued to increase in strength within its duration —

REPORTED FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1ST 2013
As some may have expected, a big spooky magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook and rattled the Taipei lab on Halloween October 31st at 8:02 pm. Some people were reported trapped in elevators though firemen successfully extracted their bodies. The quake continued to increase in strength during its powerful shaking duration and this caused many people to panic.

At the Lab, pre-warnings were evident throughout the day prior to the big earthquake as smaller almost undetectable quake motions were felt causing motion sickness.

Suspended spherical lighting ball pendulums made of pure glass, used as scientific detection instruments and sensors, to detect skyscraper motion in the Lab, were swinging about indicating lots of motion and displacements.

The up/down and left/right motion of the quake put several objects in motion in the lab, including some shelves that moved across the ledge and books that vibrated from one place to another. Suspended lights were heard jostling and swinging about wildly as the quake-shaking lasted about a minute.

At one point, its seemed as if the building would topple over as it was swaying many feet from side to side. The top of these skyscrapers can sway 6-feet or more from side to side, depending on the height of the skyscraper and the power of the quake.

The Brain Cortex along with its jar and parts were residing on top of the lab bench. There are three lab benches with two mounted one on top of the other. Things did slide around, however the lucky brain remained on the lab bench without mishap.

The brain cortex is somewhat anticipatory earthquake proofed with its flexible and durable poly see-through transparent jar. It could potential fall and survive though we expect the batteries would become jarred from their mounts and the plastic could literally rip open the jar. As some batteries are in series and some in parallel, potentially the cortex may electrically survive such a big jolt.

Parts for interior mounting are now considered for shock absorption remounting, possibly with cushioning phenolic plates lining the spacer mount contact points. These plates are on the purchase list for the next trip to the electronic parts store plaza.

Another anti-quake idea is to strap each battery to its respective mount using a plastic tie to prevent its popping out due to a sudden inertial jolt. Safety retainer clips to provide additional module structural support are now designed and will be installed.

The earthquake shows how much more work the brain cortex in a jar project requires to make it more survivable during a catastrophic event.

It was the third inland earthquake of magnitude 6 or higher this year. The previous ones occurred in Nantou County — a magnitude 6.2 quake on March 27 and a magnitude 6.5 quake on June 2.

Brain Cortex Index Part 16

Propeller Chip Tiny Digital Recorder

TINY DIGITAL RECORDER USING A

Demo Board rev D, E, F, click to enlarge

PROPELLER CHIP VOICE RECORD & PLAYBACK
Set up a Parallax Propeller chip with microphone in and speaker out (or run code on the Parallax Propeller Demo Board) to enable a digital recorder for a few seconds of sound record and playback, much like a unit sold at Radio Shack.

"It records one second of sound into the Prop's RAM (no SD card etc. needed), then plays that sound when another sound exceeds a sound threshold."

DISCOVERY POST
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/105292-Parrot-Auto-voice-record-and-playback

The code is provided by Raymond at the Parallax Forum. "It uses the demo board's microphone (voice activated) to record·a second of audio. Then, it plays it back out the speakers a second later. After this, it will randomly either repeat or record again. Of course, this idea could be extended into a WAV recorder... This works good for recording something short like "Boo!" for Halloween effects. Nothing else is needed to store the record except the Prop chip itself. You don't have to have it say "boo" to be a Halloween feature... just a mysterious parrot.. unseen, but heard will offer up lots of fun. Just make sure that the mysterious parrot is loud enough, but coming from an impossible to determine source (maybe a ceiling speaker). Play with the timing and have it be a weird echo of sorts."

Parrot_8bit.zip‎ 18.5 KB

Beau Schwabe offers a variation with ECHO capabilities used in a Halloween application. "I was playing around with this object a little bit tonight for a Halloween prop, and I figured out a way to really sustain the echo for long periods of time (about 20 seconds). When you adjust the bit resolution, you can really get some funky robotic to large auditorium sound effects..."

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/97402-Microphone-to-Headphones-Object?p=681482&viewfull=1#post681482

Propeller Echo Test - Happy Halloween.zip‎ 1.89 MB 
PropellerEchoTest_laugh.zip‎ 1.89 MB
Propeller Echo Test.spin‎ 3.9 KB
PropellerEchoTest_8.zip‎ 568.2 KB
PropellerEchoTest_10.zip‎ 591.3 KB

For downloading a schematic that includes revision G:
http://www.parallax.com/sites/default/files/downloads/32100-Propeller-Demo-Board-Schematic-RevG_0.pdf

Microphone-to-VGA demo in the OBEX. http://obex.parallax.com/object/80 

Basic Stamp Discovery

STAMP DISCOVERY MAKES WAY FOR NEW SUPERMACHINES
GIANT BASIC STAMP DISCOVERY
While organizing space after several times of moving from lab to lab and home to home, some hidden dusty boxes were discovered way up inside the dark poorly illuminated back country of elevated storage land. When opened, the boxes held the greatest treasures of dozens of BASIC Stamps, chips, modules, boards, and parts! This opens the pathway for the construction of new Stamp supermachines.

— Halloween special true story —

These treasured boxed caches of Stamp modules and parts were collected over the past ten years, and were located up in the tiny dark elevated loft, a place where no human dare go, especially in the month of October, when spirits, goblins, ghosts, vampires, and unmentionable creepy crawlies make their appearances...

It's the place where there's no space to stand up. On your hands and knees, you crawl around with other things that also crawl. They seek the warmth of your pants, and once they get inside, they love to bite.

If you're brave enough to temporary withstand the horrendous heat and fling your face into the dimly illuminated dusty dark creepy crawly realm, or suddenly encounter a sticky spider cobweb of immense proportions flapped abrubtly into your face along with its large ugly black furry resident inhabitant, or endure any scarey small spaces closing in on you creating confining claustrophobic tendencies, this is surely the place to go, explore and realize the full peak of your greatest fears!

Treasure hunters are often brave souls, willing to temporarily endure such challenges, with the thought of treasured discovery in mind. Suddenly, a treasure cache of boxes was discovered, filled with dozens of BASIC Stamps, modules, chips, boards, kits, and parts, enough to design and build the next generation massive and powerful Stamp supermachine! The cache discovered will undoubtedly lead to greater, larger, and considerably more powerful BASIC Stamp supermachines!