Introduction: $5 Dollar Burglar Alarm!
I made a Burglar Alarm for under 5 bucks, and items I found laying around the house! No soldering required. (soldering optional)
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25 Comments
5 years ago
I can't get the video to play.
11 years ago on Introduction
12 years ago on Introduction
LOL I have done that before with a plastic cd case!
12 years ago on Introduction
yarrrrrr how to download it?
13 years ago on Introduction
damn great idea right to me wats ur group
13 years ago on Introduction
that was very maguiver-like
13 years ago on Introduction
Beautifully simple, and I love your prototyping technique with just cardboard, elastic bands and paperclips- I'll have to remember that one. If you are connecting free wires together you can solder without an iron- just twist the wires together, heat in a flame and add solder. Another possible source of louder buzzers is an old smoke alarm- watch out for radioactive sources when dismantling them but it would give the alarm a real bite! +
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
radio active? what the hell could be radio active in a fire alarm?
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
As Mr Slippy Fist says, in some smoke alarms there is a tiny radioactive source, which is used to detect smoke by sensing when the radiation crossing a small air gap decreases, caused by the presence of smoke particles.
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
Have you never changed a battery in one? Theirs a little black thingy with the radioactive sign on it.
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
oh, really? I've never noticed that before.
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
Thanks for your comments! Also thanks for the tip on how to solder with heat from a flame and solder :)
13 years ago on Introduction
i really hate bringing this up, but if you don't mind waiting a couple weeks, you can use this as your buzzer:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.826
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
i bought one of those from the dollar store and it can change from alarm to chime. It is unbelievably loud though, it says 90 Db on the package but it only gives out 90 Db the first time its used. It sucks up life from those tiny batteries very quickly.
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
Yeah but with that one you can't make a trip wire... anyway, this one is great for what I was looking for, I needed an alarm "trap" for my LARPing and this works brilliantly, simple enough to arm and disarm without any real skill!
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
Yeah...I own a couple of those alarms. I found out about that alarm AFTER I made this video. I could have saved a buck or two. You can always modify this burglar alarm with a louder buzzer (alarm). Anyway, thanks for watching my vid :)
13 years ago on Introduction
nice i like it its very simple to make and it work great!
13 years ago on Introduction
How about you make it a ten dollar alarm. Attach the string to a five dollar note and do the rest as usual. When someone takes the money the alarm goes of.
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
LOL!
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
I mean off.