Re: Building a Better Buzzer System

• From: Jason Mueller <jcmpn7_at_mujason.yahoo.invalid>
• Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 04:08:21 -0000
• Message-ID: <b9v3rl+263h_at_...>

I seem to remember something about one of our former team members who 
was an engineering student trying to build a wireless buzzer system 
that could be connected to a computer.  I'm a little fuzzy on which 
member and what the buzzer project entailed, though.  Anthony is 
definitely right in that a buzzer could be routed through a computer 
and have many bells and whistles, such as custom buzzes and 
statkeeping.

Jason Mueller
President, MU College Bowl

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, ZAMM_Phaedrus <no_reply_at_y...> wrote:
> About a week ago, I got spammed by a company called LearningWare. 
One
> of their webpages included a five-team wireless buzzer system to go
> with their "gameshow" software for the low price of $1,995.
> 
> Now, in the past, I've suggested in coversation that someone should
> build a buzzer system that can be plugged into a laptop. Mike
> "Hairboy" Sorice has told me that writing a computer program to 
handle
> the buzzer system is trivial and that a buzzer can be designed from
> parts costing easily less than $100 and that it wouldn't take much
> time to do so.
> 
> It'd be nice. Heck, long-term, the software can be designed to allow
> electronic tabulating of stats from a computer/buzzer system in each
> room over a network. You can have customized sounds for buzing in 
and
> have all the bells and whistles that wow some and annoy others.
> 
> So, not having expertise in electronics, I toss this out to the 
list.
> Anyone have ideas?
> 
> Anthony