Hey, PrepHole, I'm getting renovicted from my apartment and I want to use a Raspberry Pi to create a couple klaxons on timers that I can hide in the walls to torment the property manager and whatever yuppies can afford to move in next. I don't know where to start, and if I should make it a continuous thing that only stops if you destroy the devices or ones that sound randomly so that it's more difficult to locate them. Dunno where to start though, particularly with the part that would produce the sound. Any ideas?
>so that it's more difficult to locate them.
Protip: most people are not as stupid as you are.
I'm sure it's possible to produce a sound with sonic mechanics like ventriloquism, where it sounds like it's coming from a direction it isn't in.
It's settled. Are there suitable components that I could hook up to a pi or other microcontroller?
Probably a good idea to mark it as not a bomb, too, now that I think of it.
>produce a sound with sonic mechanics like ventriloquism
OP is going to stand in the hall carrying a wooden dummy.
>Probably a good idea to mark it as not a bomb, too, now that I think of it.
Yeah, bomb squads are trained to always believe "this is NOT a bomb!" notices placed on any hidden home-brewed devices with timers on them that they might encounter, especially when planted in buildings whose recently evicted occupants are disgruntled poorgays with a chip on their shoulder about property development.
Pretty sure it's in the Geneva Conventions; once that notice is visible they have to just pack up and leave, or if they already have in hand they donate the parts to STEM programs in undeserved community schools.
Unfortunately, post-Litebrite fiasco, it's necessary to propose the possibility that scary electronic devices are not bombs, lest cops jump to that conclusion.
Anything that makes noise for more than a fraction of a second, can be located by sound. So, random timer. No more than once per 30 minutes.
thinkgeek used to sell a product called an annoy-o-tron or something like that, they were perfect for what you're looking to do
Doesn't look like it's for sale on Amazon but this does look perfect.
https://www.amazon.com/ThinkGeek-Annoy-a-tron-2-0/dp/B002YE3YDU/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
I wonder if there's a way to modify the battery connection to attach one that'll last for a year.
if you can get your hands on one, 2 d-cell batteries in series in a 2 dollar chinese holder/ tape and a bit of soldering you'd probably have a multi-year runtime at minimum
Perfect. Is there anything I need to be aware of in terms of avoiding starting a fire? I just want to frick with them for being greedy buttholes, not become an arsonist.
So they are yuppies when they live in the same apartment you live in just because they pay slightly more? And they deserve to suffer because of that? I cant tell you how many times I had to pay out the ass for rent because of a job that required me to live there. I am glad you are being kicked out anon and I hope you end up homeless, losers like you make the world worse because you are too stupid to see where the real problems are.
>So they are yuppies when they live in the same apartment you live in just because they pay slightly more?
It's getting renovated. I've seen the style, it's yuppiecore.
>And they deserve to suffer because of that?
Yes.
>I am glad you are being kicked out anon
I don't care.
>I hope you end up homeless.
I won't.
>losers like you make the world worse
I doubt it, I'm neutral at worst.
>because you are too stupid to see where the real problems are.
Picrel.
No, we've been good tenants. The complexes in the area are price-fixing. They raised rents 30% since the start of the pandemic, and anyone they couldn't weed out with that they're renovicting. The point is to keep the rental class insecure and desperate. Good people get ground down by these property-hoarding ghouls' greed and the empty shells that enable them.
>The point is to keep the rental class insecure and desperate.
Sounds like they are winning that battle handily if the best you can do in retaliation is ask strangers to help you make a noise maker to annoy them.
It's the kind of desperate act of a moron that makes outside observers think that you really had no chance to begin with, and aren't worthy of support in your cause for the simple fact that even if victory was handed to you, you'd squander it in short order.
That is to say, if this actually was the moral wrong you want to pretend it is, you'd still be a self-serving, unserious clown unworthy of sympathy or support.
I suggest you get picrel, shove it up your ass and stand outside the building farting in protest.
>Sounds like they are winning that battle handily if the best you can do in retaliation is ask strangers to help you make a noise maker to annoy them.
Yes. The only way to go from total defeat is up. That makes even small acts of defiance meaningful, and why it makes you so angry.
>The point is to keep the rental class insecure and desperate
This is schizoposting
You rent so you don't have to pay for needed repairs and renovations when the building is in need
You rent so you don't have to pay property taxes or insurance or for replacing appliances
Either save up to buy a place so you'll stop being moronic or stfu
All of those things are rolled into the rent. There would be no point in private rental properties if costs weren't covered and a profit wasn't left over. The only exception eould be if the property were simply collateral for other investments, in which case renters are paying not only for the purchase loan, maintenance, and taxes, but also whatever other boondoggles the owners have gotten involved in (I believe this to be the case, hence the massive rent hikes around the time that the FFR started rising and crypto crashed).
>No, we've been good tenants
>They raised rents 30% since the start of the pandemic, and anyone they couldn't weed out with that they're renovicting
If you were good tenants, they'd want to keep you there. This is only common sense.
You're not a good tenant because you don't want to pay market rates. That makes you a poor tenant.
A good tenant is one that's reliable and requires low maintenance, which we were. "Market" rates that a driven by price-fixing are not market and therefore invalid as a determinant of tenant quality.
>If you were good tenants, they'd want to keep you there. This is only common sense.
It's actually begging the question.
It sounds like you deserve to be evicted
smoke detector with low battery, hide behind refrigerator or washing machine
Oh nooo I have to spend 2 minutes picking up a free smoke detector
99% of people will assume it's on a ceiling
last year a CO detector was giving off a low battery beep every 3 minutes, couldn't find it for 4 hours
replaced the battery in every dmoke detector in the house and then started thinking I might be imagining things
a beeper hidden underneath a sink will drive somebody crazy
That is a good idea. I've also been thinking that if they're timed to go off just a few dozen milliseconds after one another, it becomes much more difficult to locate any single one. They'll sound like one device coming from multiple directions.
>smoke detector with low battery
kek this. imagine being some moron nerd pottering around with his shitberry pi and D cell batteries (lmao) when you could use a pre-made device that is literally designed for the purpose.
all there is left is to find good hiding spots
If it's low battery it won't last long enough.
Fricking muslim
Sorry dude PrepHole is a board for landowners and their home projects. Unfortunately from what you've said you are somehow below even a rentoid. Enjoy your ban.
You should just have a nice day in your apartment so it drags the renovations out multiple months
Would be a real "gotcha" moment when they found you
I've considered it. The next FFVII game comes out in a few months though.