Give Scotty back his voice!
August 6, 2006 3:02 AM Subscribe
Help me to return a motion-sensing garden gnome to his former glory!
My friend has a motion sensing garden gnome named Scotty. You walked past him and he made a noise. The only problem is, his motion sensor died a long time ago. After one attempt to fix it, she threw out the electronics so now Scotty is just a gnome.
I want to give Scotty a new sensor/buzzer. I'm no expert at electronics, but I'm not entirely clueless. There is a hole, probably a little bigger than 0.5cm in diameter drilled in the front where the old sensor used to be. The inside is completely hollow.
What's the easiest/cheapest way to go about this?
My friend has a motion sensing garden gnome named Scotty. You walked past him and he made a noise. The only problem is, his motion sensor died a long time ago. After one attempt to fix it, she threw out the electronics so now Scotty is just a gnome.
I want to give Scotty a new sensor/buzzer. I'm no expert at electronics, but I'm not entirely clueless. There is a hole, probably a little bigger than 0.5cm in diameter drilled in the front where the old sensor used to be. The inside is completely hollow.
What's the easiest/cheapest way to go about this?
Buy this talking Winnie the Pooh from eBay and swap the guts out into Scotty. It will be a lot cheaper than building your own from parts.
posted by caddis at 11:53 AM on August 6, 2006
posted by caddis at 11:53 AM on August 6, 2006
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You could also get a motion sensing light fixture and use an adaptor to go from the light socket to an outlet and plug a noise maker into it.
Mcmaster-carr has the individual pieces to make motion sensors.
posted by 445supermag at 8:05 AM on August 6, 2006