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Re: bells, buzzers, and whistles

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
As Ether pointed out, a digital output could make a nice beeper if you couple it to an LM386 or equivalent and a speaker.
Here's another thought:

Could you just connect the tweeter to the RTS or DTR pin of the cRIO's RS232 port and toggle it at a sufficiently annoying frequency? (like perhaps the tweeter's resonant frequency - if it's low enough to hear :-)



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