Random Noise Bursts
This dubious invention is sure to drive its victims absolutely bonkers, 100% guaranteed. When assembled and coded, this will let off random beeps at random times that go for a random length.
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Step 1
Let’s build this!
This is the positive leg of the buzzer. It will have a ‘+’ sign on top of it and will also be longer than the other leg.
Don’t forget to plug the board into your computer with the included USB cable.
Connections
Buzzer
The +LEG is the longer leg.
+ LEG11
- LEGGND
Step 2
Code some chaos!
Don’t forget to select your port, like ususal
Copy and paste the sample code
int buzzer = 11;
void setup() {
// put your setup code here, to run once:
pinMode(buzzer, OUTPUT);
}
void loop() {
for(int i = random(1, 8); i > 0; i = i - random(1,25)) {
tone(buzzer, random(50, 1000), random(1, 1000));
delay(random(50, 500));
tone(buzzer, random(500, 10000), random(1, 500));
delay(random(50, 500));
}
delay(random(1000, 25000));
}Upload the code and test it out
Step 3
Modify the Madness!
Change the randomness of everything
While everything in this program is very random, there are still ways that we can control this randomness. Take a look at line 15 in the code, for example, where a random delay is set in-between the noise bursts.
delay(random(1000, 25000));What does this mean? Well, normally we set a delay like this: delay(time). The time is always in milliseconds. However, here we have random(1000, 25000) inside the brackets. Whaile this may look a bit complicated, all this code is really doing is generating a random number between 1000 and 25000, and this is how long the delay goes for.
If we wanted this delay to go for any time between 5 and 10 seconds, we would need to use the following code:
delay(random(5000, 10000));Don’t forget that all these numbers are in milliseconds, and 1000 milliseconds = 1 second. But the delay on line 15 isn’t the only place where you can change this random() thing. Take a look at the rest of the code and see what you can change. . .