Comments on: The Pedestrian Horn

By: Rudi42

Rudi42 — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:31:28 +0000

I think, the best idea is not to change the original design, but to complement the velocity based audio information with an additional pedestrian horn audio generation board. The pedestrian horn may be activated only on very slow velocity (parking place etc.) where the original horn does not sound.
Therefore, the additional board only needs the supply voltage and the audio amplifier. Perhaps additionally a signal from the reverse gear can trigger a “beep-beep sound” for the pedestrians.

If you are interested in, I already programmed an Arduino Nano board with such a program, including 10 audio files. You can find all project files in the going electric forum, https://www.goingelectric.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=52091&sid=9daff5d7ed4300db0de0610b3abc1053

By: Jeroen Meijer

Jeroen Meijer — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 14:29:10 +0000

In reply to King Ming. Nope :-) Somebody should send me a trashed VSP and maybe I can see what's on the flash eeprom.

By: King Ming

King Ming — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:36:20 +0000

Still no way to customise the sound?

By: Jeroen Meijer

Jeroen Meijer — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:19:37 +0000

In reply to Matthew. Very nice, thank you!!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 18:57:03 +0000

If you’re interested in how it works you might want to read this : http://architexte.ircam.fr/textes/Misdariis14c/index.pdf

By: Oleksiy Protas

Oleksiy Protas — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:33:31 +0000

In reply to Jeroen Meijer. Yeah thought so as well. Will measure, however all the rest of the electronics run fine.

By: Jeroen Meijer

Jeroen Meijer — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 22:38:04 +0000

In reply to Oleksiy Protas. Stupid question: is the battery still full? What you describe is somewhat familiar to my 12 volt being flattened to 5V (oops!). it might have been slowly emptied without the traction battery?

By: Oleksiy Protas

Oleksiy Protas — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 21:34:37 +0000

Quick question if somebody faced this before (Google seem to not know even in French). I’ve disconnected the 12v battery (- obviously), then connected it in a few days. The car’s pedestrian horn let a small hum then shut off. Then the next day I repeated the operation (in order to open the boot 😀 ) the horn would not turn off while the cabin button LED flashed and pressing it didn’t seem to have any effect. Gonna try tomorrow if this condition sticks.

Car is without traction battery at the moment, so it might be related somehow, but maybe it’s something commonly known, thus asking.

By: Jeroen Meijer

Jeroen Meijer — Wed, 04 May 2016 14:37:22 +0000

In reply to stiloboy. I suggest reading out the flash memory chip ;-)

By: stiloboy

stiloboy — Wed, 04 May 2016 14:30:03 +0000

Someone has to work out a hack on this so we can all drive around with F1 sounds, Pod racers, Tie Fighter, Knight Rider, Mysterons, crazy frog, imperial March, or just “Electric car… don’t walk in front of me being shouted out”.