3 Direct Access Arrangements
I had been looking for a new hobby for a while. Something to fill a couple of hours between coming home and watching the News at Ten. I can't remember where I came across the Arduino, it just kind of drifted into my life, but as a new hobby this could be perfect. I bought a Starter Pack and got going. I learnt enough to get beyond the simple projects, ie flashing LED's, that kind of thing, to realize I wanted to do stuff that would interface with my telephone system. If you have an interest in old GPO stuff then at some point you are bound to come across TIM , the GPO speaking clock. A project was launched back in 2000 to recreate the speaking clock using micro-electronics but by the time I found out about it it was long since over. So what better than to build my own? I come from a computer science background so had become fluent in C a very long time ago; programming the clock using the Arduino wasn't an issue. I could digitize a human voice recording and store it on EEP...