Using a PC with a few voice modems would work, unless they expect lots of traffic. It would probably be best to have a dialogic card which has much larger capacity compared to a single line modem (can handle either single or dual T1s per card 24-48 lines). If they expect to handle more than a few simultaneous calls, using the Dialogic cards would probably be the best solution.
From that it's fairly simple to play sound files to a caller, convert mp3 to a dialogic vox file and stream it to the card. Hell, i could probably whip up a fairly good service for this kind of thing...wonder what kind of commercial interest there would be (is it worth my time?). It'd be possible to set up a box that could handle several different numbers, each to a different band's songs or with some kind of special announcement...or to have it as a music store front-end.
Well, there is a difference between serial and parallel linking. If you have ten of these motors linked like a chain (serial), then the scenario you described would hold true. If you had ten of these hooked up in parallel, then each motor would have 1/10th of the tension of the load...kinda like when we were kids and we learned how to distribute the load of lifting a person by everyone gathering around and putting two fingers under the person laying down. Remember how amazingly easy it was to lift them?
I can see alot that can be done with this...depending on how it can be powered. Think of contact lenses that hook into your wearable PC, or T-Shirts that constantly change patterns (especially popular with the ravers). You could replace the window tinting on you car so that it has commercials advocating Linux. Doorway
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Using a PC with a few voice modems would work, unless they expect lots of traffic. It would probably be best to have a dialogic card which has much larger capacity compared to a single line modem (can handle either single or dual T1s per card 24-48 lines). If they expect to handle more than a few simultaneous calls, using the Dialogic cards would probably be the best solution. From that it's fairly simple to play sound files to a caller, convert mp3 to a dialogic vox file and stream it to the card. Hell, i could probably whip up a fairly good service for this kind of thing...wonder what kind of commercial interest there would be (is it worth my time?). It'd be possible to set up a box that could handle several different numbers, each to a different band's songs or with some kind of special announcement...or to have it as a music store front-end.
Well, there is a difference between serial and parallel linking. If you have ten of these motors linked like a chain (serial), then the scenario you described would hold true. If you had ten of these hooked up in parallel, then each motor would have 1/10th of the tension of the load...kinda like when we were kids and we learned how to distribute the load of lifting a person by everyone gathering around and putting two fingers under the person laying down. Remember how amazingly easy it was to lift them?
I can see alot that can be done with this...depending on how it can be powered. Think of contact lenses that hook into your wearable PC, or T-Shirts that constantly change patterns (especially popular with the ravers). You could replace the window tinting on you car so that it has commercials advocating Linux. Doorway