Leftovers ECE206 Lab 7

Names: Sung Joo An, Benjamin Domash Due Date: 10/23/2013

Statement of Purpose:
Learn how to reduce e-waste by reusing leftover electric technology and making something useful.

Challenge:
a) Make something marginally useful out of leftover electronic technology. b) Measure something interesting from it.

Plan:
We constructed an intercom using conventional telephones, wall-wart power supplies, relay coils, a pushbutton (SW-1), and a DC-blocking capacitor, supplied by the lab. Using the needed resistors and LED from our lab kit, we constructed the circuit seen below in Figure 1. Then, using the oscilloscope, we measured the phone signal and measured significant data points.

Execution:
Using the diagram shown in Figure 1, and our components from the lab, we built our half of the intercom setup. In order to determine how to properly orient the switch into our setup, we tested the voltage difference across the switch with the Digital Multimeter (DMM) until we found the open and closed orientations. With our properly configured circuit, we attached the oscilloscope probes to measure the phone signal from red to green. A complete view of our setup is shown below in Figure 2. With our half of the intercom set up and ready for measurement, we plugged in the power supply to the wall outlet and set up our oscilloscope. We used the Math function of the oscilloscope to view the spectrum (FFT) of the phone signal. We set the (FFT) Center Frequency to 1kHz, and the Span to 2kHz. We then pushed the 5 button on our phone and used the Cursors to

identify and take measurements of the peaks of the signal. We set the (Cursors) Source to Math so we could readout the frequencies directly. Using the IntuiLink software in the lab, we captured the image from the oscilloscope as seen in Figure 3 below. We repeated this process for the signal of the 6 button (Figure 4) and the signal of the 2 button (Figure 5). After getting our results, we asked the TA to set up their TA phone with ours and we were able to push our button to call them on the intercom!
TAs phone yellow
1k 1k

Your phone (build)

black green Coil SW-1 + DC Wall-wart + red (standard wire color) SW-1

Ignore for this challenge

1.5 F

Figure 1

Figure 2

Results and Conclusions:

#5 signal: #2 signal:

Figure 3

Figure 5

#6 signal:

DTMF keypad frequencies (with sound clips) 1209 Hz 1336 Hz 1477 Hz 1633 Hz 697 Hz 1 770 Hz 4 852 Hz 7 941 Hz * 2 5 8 0
Figure 6

3 6 9 #

A B C D

Figure 4

Measured peak frequencies for #5 signal = 776Hz, 1.341kHz Measured peak frequencies for #6 signal = 774Hz, 1.479kHz Measured peak frequencies for #2 signal = 705Hz, 1.341kHz

The frequencies that we measured from each key press signal matched the frequencies that we found online for a DTMF keypad shown above in Figure 6. We can see that there are two main peaks in each figure. And those two frequencies are what defines which key is being pressed. Another interesting thing that we can try to do is take apart an old calculator and if possible make some sort of pager with the calculator.