Where's the Beep?

[susandennis]

I need an invention, please.

I need a beep identifier. Everything in my life now beeps. My toaster oven, my microwave, my coffee pot, my dishwasher. My washing machine, my dryer, my humidifier, my vacuum cleaner. I have 4 computers that are beep maniacs.

My house is beep central. But what the fuck is beeping? Does the meat need to be turned over? The clothes taken out of the dryer? Is the Roomba stuck somewhere? Or is someone sending me an IM?  Or has one of the computers blown a tire? 

I drive myself nuts with every beep.

I have no idea what this gadget looks like or how it works - I need the inventor to work out the details.  But, get 'er done and I'll buy the first two (one for backup).

Thanks.

Comments

[pisceandreamer.livejournal.com]

The answering machine beeps when there is a message. But it's not terribly loud or frequent, so for the first one, I spent the longest time trying to figure out where the noise was coming from.

[jwg.livejournal.com]

Turn them all off and/or ignore them. Most of the time it doesn't matter and you'll e\get to the situation in good time.

[howeird]

Technically it's very easy to do, with some user set-up. Just need a spectrum analyzer which you set up by holding it near the beeping thing, then typing in the name of the beeping thing. That name will flash whenever it hears that particular beeping thing.

You just need to find someone with basic digital signal processing programming know-how. It's the same tech which lets scientists recognize individual orcas in the Sound.

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

That sounds like something you could post on the Make magazine bulletin board, and read about how to build an issue or two later.