tom189 Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 hi im doing an electronic course at collage and have been asked to design and build a project. I have decided to build a fishing bite alarm although have searched the internet and came up with nothing for the actual circuit diagram for the alarm to get me started. Just wonderd if any one on here would be able to help cheers for looking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonybranno Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 Surely copying a design for a circuit diagram is passing someone elses work off as your own? I would imagine (rightly or wrongly) that the stuff you have learned in class would hold you in good stead to do it yourself. After all, an electronic bite alarm must really be a basic thing to knock up for someone who is taking an electronics course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinyljunkie Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 buy a cheap one of fleabay and reverse engineer it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebirdjones Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 buy a cheap one of fleabay and reverse engineer it ! Â Good idea, i'm sure the cheaper the alarm you buy the more simple it will be inside making it easier to copy. Â Would something like a bivvy light be easier to make? Possibly make a red one to help the night vision? Â There's nothing wrong with a bit of plagiarism Tony, as long as you don't get caught Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonybranno Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 There's nothing wrong with a bit of plagiarism Tony, as long as you don't get caught  Well ive got the thought that if you just copy someone elses work and pass it off as your own, your not really accomplishing anything. TBH you are cheating yourself, no one else. You are not going to gain from it are you?  Its the same in fishing. How many people have you seen on this forum that ask for advice on a certain venue when in truth they want you to fill them on all the info like the going bait, the best swim and what rig to use because they cant be bothered to do the leg work themselves, or just want the "quick fix".  Just my opinion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinyljunkie Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 There's nothing wrong with a bit of plagiarism Tony, as long as you don't get caught  Well ive got the thought that if you just copy someone elses work and pass it off as your own, your not really accomplishing anything. TBH you are cheating yourself, no one else. You are not going to gain from it are you?  Its the same in fishing. How many people have you seen on this forum that ask for advice on a certain venue when in truth they want you to fill them on all the info like the going bait, the best swim and what rig to use because they cant be bothered to do the leg work themselves, or just want the "quick fix".  Just my opinion  i'm not suggesting that he copies, more looks at the design and how it works and developes his own idea around this pretty much how most mass produced bits of rubbish that come out of China are made ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hairymary123 Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 Probably not the best group to ask mate. If I wanted to learn how to build a TV then I would not target Homer Simpson type characters for advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neontrifle Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 Probably not the best group to ask mate. If I wanted to learn how to build a TV then I would not target Homer Simpson type characters for advice. Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevtaylor Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 Why not design something thats not been fully developed yet - maybe a growth area. Â Like alarms for night time that wake the angler up if someone is snooping about nearby - preferably one that lets other anglers hear and see that someone needs help. Â Actually arm the alarm with a gun to finish off the robbing ............! Â I know theres a few designs about but they dont seem up to much. Â Edit: What about an alarm specifically for detecting someone trying to pinch the rods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebirdjones Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 Why not design something thats not been fully developed yet - maybe a growth area. Like alarms for night time that wake the angler up if someone is snooping about nearby - preferably one that lets other anglers hear and see that someone needs help.  Actually arm the alarm with a gun to finish off the robbing ............!  I know theres a few designs about but they dont seem up to much.  ATTX sell an extra for the receiver that has sensors that you put around your swim to detect movement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevtaylor Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 Why not design something thats not been fully developed yet - maybe a growth area. Like alarms for night time that wake the angler up if someone is snooping about nearby - preferably one that lets other anglers hear and see that someone needs help.  Actually arm the alarm with a gun to finish off the robbing ............!  I know theres a few designs about but they dont seem up to much.  ATTX sell an extra for the receiver that has sensors that you put around your swim to detect movement.  Good - but does it kill them?  Seriously I think it needs flashing lights and very loud noise to put them off a bit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonezy Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 Portable, sensor operated apache helicopter, that comes out your bivvy and blows them to pieces? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
666carpcatcher Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 How would you combat the problem of you moveing around in the swim or removeing your rods from the alarms?? Â The simplist way would be to but sensors in the alarm where the rods sit and ativating when the rod has been lifted from teh alarm, bit like the pike alarms that switch of when the rod is lifted? but the other way around, but again you get the problem of what happens when you want to lift the rod (ok for if your recasting and turn your alarms of anyway) but if you get a run then what? Â Now what would be a good idea (abit exstravagent though) would be to make an alarm with a reciever and a watch/ring or the like that works with the alarm (with a meters range or so) and when the watch/ring meat the alarm turns of, but if the rod is removed without the watch/ring being within range the alarm canot be turned off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welder Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 Portable, sensor operated apache helicopter, that comes out your bivvy and blows them to pieces?   You think a lot like I do, Jonezy. Be handy for errant bait boats too  Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonezy Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 A U-Boat would be much better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnla22 Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 my dad made me an optonic bite alarm in about 1992 , worked fine with latching led that had to be reset , ill get him to dig out the circuit , weather you can figer it out is another thing ,it took him a while and he's an electronics expert . Dont know weather he designed the circuit or used one he found ,knowing dad probably the first . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
666carpcatcher Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Something along the lines of this but with a speaker not a light  HERE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopefull Posted November 13, 2008 Report Share Posted November 13, 2008 Could build it with some sort of narrow platform for the line to lay on, linked to a mercury tilt-switch? Don't know how sensitive that would be, as you would have to have an angle in the line for the platform to be moved, but it's an idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
levigsp Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 Whats wrong with dough bobbins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salokcinnodrog Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 Whats wrong with dough bobbins   Absolutely nothing I reckon.   For an Electronic alarm how simple do you want to go?  If you want easy and simple then you have (hopefull's) Mercury Tilt switch that when the Mercury completes the circuit will make a buzzer sound or light come on. Easily adapted as a Drop-off (Pike or predator style) alarm.  Or probably slightly more suitable for Carp fishing go back to the original Metal vane style like the Herons. I remember making something like that myself back in the 80's when I did my Electro-mechanical Engineering course. Can't remember exactly where I got the Casing for it, probably heat treated some plastic to bend it into shape  Jonezy, If you thinking along the lines of that can you patent it, and I'll build it for a small share of the royalties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speersy26 Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 I think C4 and a trip wire would be more effective, as long as your bivvy can withstand the explosion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martyn123 Posted November 15, 2008 Report Share Posted November 15, 2008 how about a voice deactivation because any one like a dumb theift who probably knows nothing about fishing or how turn an alarm on or off.as you know if you lift your rod of the pod with the alarm on it will sound so make a voice deactivation so they cant turn it off and if the remove the rod with out deactivtion a c4 and a collection of other wepon use heatsensors and blows the idiots up   Edited to remove swearing. Please don't do it again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stake_point Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 hi im doing an electronic course at collage and have been asked to design and build a project. I have decided to build a fishing bite alarm although have searched the internet and came up with nothing for the actual circuit diagram for the alarm to get me started. Just wonderd if any one on here would be able to help cheers for looking  You could ask an 'old geezer' if u could look in-side his heron.  hahhahahaha...so sorry..i needed a laugh.  Good luck pal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Hayes Posted March 11, 2021 Report Share Posted March 11, 2021 The way I would address this is by using either an Arduino Nano or Raspberry Pi Pico for the processing and a Piezo sensor for the activation and 3d print the casing and the sensor wheel, this can easily be designed within Tinkercad or Fusion 360Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framey Posted March 11, 2021 Report Share Posted March 11, 2021 1 hour ago, Andrew Hayes said: The way I would address this is by using either an Arduino Nano or Raspberry Pi Pico for the processing and a Piezo sensor for the activation and 3d print the casing and the sensor wheel, this can easily be designed within Tinkercad or Fusion 360Â Â Hopefully after 13 years he will have completed this part of his course lol yonny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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