Author Topic: Alternative to the AM radio trick (Read 8123 times)

Juju · « **on:** October 22, 2011, 10:06:45 pm »

Here's a little trick I discovered: sit your calculator on the pickups of an electric guitar and you should hear the sound of your calc on the amplifier. It's easy. You might have to correctly align the processor and/or the link port area with the pickups, set the selector correctly on the guitar and set the volume rather high.

In fact, it's the same principle with an AM radio (minus the radio interferences), it works with electromagnetism.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #1 on:** October 22, 2011, 10:12:37 pm »

This is cool. You should make a vid about it, though, and maybe have some realsound stuff playing, or other kind of music like Calcmod or Mobiletunes stuff.

Can this damage the calc, though?

Juju · « **Reply #2 on:** October 22, 2011, 10:16:31 pm »

No idea, don't think so. The guitar strings keep the calcs from being near the magnets, but still powerful enough to get the sound.

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calcdude84se · « **Reply #3 on:** October 22, 2011, 10:18:13 pm »

It shouldn't damage the calc, no. The problem I had with the AM radio trick was that devices other than the link port also seemed to emit EM radiation. I don't have an electric guitar, so would have to make some sort of device that could have a current induced in it.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #4 on:** October 22, 2011, 10:22:15 pm »

Ah ok. Do you mean like microwaves?

Also juju if you make a vid you should try playing with the guitar strings at one point to show what can happen with the calc nearby or when it's playing music or a note.

calcdude84se · « **Reply #5 on:** October 22, 2011, 10:23:30 pm »

Microwaves are a form of EM radiation, yes. The term applies to radio waves, light, gamma rays, and TV signals, just to name a few. Basically, other parts of the calc produce "sound" too.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #6 on:** October 22, 2011, 10:29:34 pm »

Ah ok. I noticed for example my TV with a V antenna didn't play properly when a microwave was running. Juju should definitively make a vid for those who don't have a guitar with an amplifier, to show what kind of sound can be produced.

Yeong · « **Reply #7 on:** October 22, 2011, 10:30:36 pm »

O.o
I gotta try this.

Juju · « **Reply #8 on:** October 22, 2011, 10:31:13 pm »

Also I remarked 2 areas where the sound is the best (by sliding the calc around): the link port and the processor. Oddly, the distance between the processor and the link port is nearly the same as the distance between 2 of my pickups. Which is rather nice. Then you set the selector to those 2 pickups and there you go.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #9 on:** October 22, 2011, 10:58:58 pm »

Hmm interesting. If I ever get an electric guitar I definitively need to try this.

Also wasn't the sound louder on the Prizm? On TCAP last week it looked like it was.

Juju · « **Reply #10 on:** October 22, 2011, 11:00:05 pm »

Yeah it was I think.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #11 on:** October 22, 2011, 11:00:25 pm »

What about the Nspire CX?

Al;so you should definitively change the topic title to Alternative to AM radio trick: an electric guitar or something like that, so people know it involves calc sound and guitars.

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