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Get Yourself Star Trek Computer Sounds

Star Trek fans are usually technology fanatics. This stems from the fact that if you grew up when any "generation" of Star Trek episode was on, then you quickly became obsessed with the cool gadgets that the Star Trek crew carried and used throughout the ship (or on planets). Now that the world has progressed with tremendous technological advancements, many of those technologies are now a reality. Just last week, I had my temperature scanned with a probe that the nurse simply ran across my forehead. I had to double check to make sure I hadn't just entered the Enterprise sick bay. And then, I grinned... Star Trek is here.

Unfortunately, when it comes to our cell phones and computers, the cool sounds that came along with those old Trek gadgets simply never became a reality. Our computers beep and alert using all of the standard operating system sounds, our phones ring or buzz in various ringtones - but what ever happened to those cool Star Trek sound effects that our "communicators" are supposed to have? We've achieved some of the Tricorder technology with our GPS gadgets but where are the metallic beeps and chirps?  MakeUseOf has always offered some of the best sound resources for readers, such as a FindSounds , or a review of the Soungle - free sound effects website . While Star Trek sounds are certainly hard to find and exist only in some of the most obscure places on the Internet - today, I offer MakeUseOf readers a few useful sources for Star Trek computer sounds.

Finding Star Trek Computer Sounds

If you've been a Trekkie for years, or you just became a new member of the Trekkie community after the last film, you've probably learned pretty quickly that finding funky sounds for your mobile phone or your computer isn't exactly the easiest task in the world. If you perform a Google search, you'll quickly discover that most of the best files are buried deep in someone's web server archive. For some reason, many of the Star Trek fans don't seem to be the most advanced webmasters, so quite a few of these sites are hard to navigate. The following list offers some of the coolest Star Trek computer sounds, movie effects and even audio quotes that most Star Trek fans will immediately recognize from their favorite Star Trek generation. Without further ado, let's "Make it so."

Pimp Out Your Mobile Phone with Star Trek

While most folks go to the Next Pimp website to pimp out their phone with various hip-hop ringtones from Beyoncé or Justin Timberlake, Trek fans can go to the Star Trek page to download from a list of ten very cool Star Trek computer sound effects.

These are mostly a collection of various short computer sound effects from the various Star Trek series. One of my favorites is the Torpedo; but dooropen, Communicator and Incoming Message are also great for different functions of a Windows Mobile device, like an incoming email message or an appointment due. There aren't many options for ringtones here, but when you're done downloading all of these sound effect, your phone will be transformed into a device that will probably turn a few heads.

Composer Juan Portela Shares His Love of Star Trek

While digging through various forums and obscure web sites for some of the best Star Trek sound effects, I came across a link to a ZIP file, hidden within the website of composer Juan Portela.  Oddly, I couldn't find a single link to this file from his actual site, but the link from a forum post worked great. Clicking on the link will immediately open the ZIP file. After extracting it, you'll have a selection of 9 awesome "alert" sound effect files that you can use to totally trick out your PC's various sounds such as errors, email messages, just about anything else.

I've used a few of these on my own computer - I think in terms of Star Trek computer sounds for various Windows alert events, this collection is perfect.  These are essentially various sound files which Juan edited mostly from the airlock sounds. I've set all of my appointment settings to use these sound files whenever an alarm is due, and I still grin every time it goes off. After a while, you'll feel like you're living in the middle of your favorite Star Trek episode.

Download Star Trek Ringtones from CellSea

Personally, I've found the best mobile phone ringtones and sound effects just by doing a search for "Star Trek" on CellSea . Just a few examples from the list of free ringtones available there include the Enterprise computer voice saying "Command Functions are offline," a ringtone made from communicator beeps, and even one made from the Star Trek TNG main theme song.

After listening to the Star Trek TNG and experiencing a lot of great childhood memories flooding back - it's now my new mobile ringtone. This assumes that you can use MP3 ringtones on your phone, as that is the format of most of these.  Obviously, since they are MP3 files, you can use all of these awesome Star Trek sound files for your computer sound effects as well.

Hundreds of Star Trek Computer Sounds at the SoundBoard

SoundBoard is probably one of the best sources for Star Trek sounds that I've seen. A search for "Star Trek" at SoundBoard results in two pages of results. Each of those results features about a dozen tracks or so of some of the best Star Trek sound bites or sound effects that you'll find anywhere.

The SoundBoard features this very cool player that lets you test out all of the tracks within each category before you download it to your computer.

If you're looking for Star Trek WAV files, a fan from the UK created a "Matt's Movie Sounds" page, and there's an entire collection of over fifty audio quotes from the original series as well as The Next Generation. Another obscure source of Star Trek sounds is Frank's Radio , where there's a directory of over 100 Star Trek WAV files that include computer responses, beeps, sound effects and quotes.

Do you know of any other valuable resources for Star Trek sounds? Share them with other Trekkies in the comments section below!

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7 Interesting IC 555 Siren and Alarm Circuits

Last Updated on January 2, 2024 by Swagatam

In this post we will learn how to use IC 555 to create 7 interesting siren and alarm sound effect generator circuits.

The versatile astable multivbrator configuration of IC 555 allows us to implement it for making various types of sirens and alarm circuits.

This becomes possible because an astable is basically a waveform generator, and can be customized for generating different types of sound waveforms, resembling alarm and sirens sounds.

What we will Learn

Here we will learn how to build the following siren and alarm circuits using IC 555:

• Monotone Alarm
• Pulsed Alarm
• Warble He-Haw Siren
• Police Siren
• Red Alert Star-Trek Alarm
• Destroyer Whooper Siren
• Ambulance Siren

1) Monotone Alarm

In the first figure below we can see the IC 555 configured as a 800 Hz frequency monotone  alarm circuit .

The speaker can have any impedance value, due to the presence of the current limiting resistance Rx. A safe value could be around 70 Ohms 1 watt.

For making a high power continuous tone alarm circuit we cam upgrade the above circuit through a power transistor driver Q1 and a more powerful loudspeaker, as shown below:

Since the design may produce a high level of ripple voltage, D1 and C3 are included to prevent the ripple interference with the IC 555 functioning .

Diodes D2 and D3 are included to neutralize the inductive switching spikes generated from the speaker coil, and to safeguard the transistor Q1 against damage.

2) Pulsed IC 555 Alarm Circuit

The previous 800 Hz monotone alarm could be converted into a more interesting pulsed 800 Hz alarm by adding another astable multivibrator with the tone generator circuit as shown in the second concept below.

We have already studied how pin 5 can be used for controlling the pulse width of the IC 555.

Here IC 2 is configured as a 1 Hz oscillator circuit which causes pin 5 of IC 1 to alternately become low at a 1 Hz rate. This in turn causes pin 3 800 Hz pulse width to narrow to an extent which almost turns OFF Q1. This produces a 1Hz sharp pulsed alarm effect on the loudspeaker.

3) Warble He-Haw Alarm Siren Circuit

If you want to convert the previous design into an ear piercing warble alarm, you can do it by simply replacing the D1 diode with a 10 K resistor as revealed in the above diagram. Also known as he-haw alarm, these are commonly used in European emergency vehicles.

We know that pin 5 can be used with an external high/low signal for modulating the pin 3 output with a corresponding widening/narrowing pulse widths. The 1 Hz alternate high low supply at pin 5 of IC2 forces the output pin #3 voltage of IC 1 to generate a symmetrically changing frequency varying from 500 Hz to 440 Hz. This causes the speaker to generate the required sharp high volume warble alarm sound at 1 Hz rate.

4) Making a Police Siren

The IC 555 can be also used for making a perfectly imitating police siren circuit as demonstrated above.

This fourth circuit is designed to produce the typical wailing sound commonly heard in police sirens.

Here IC2 is connected as a low frequency oscillator with a frequency set at a 6 second ON OFF rate.

The slow exponential triangle wave ramp generated across its C1 is fed at the base of Q1 configured as an  emitter follower .

The frequency of IC1 is set at 500 Hz which becomes its center frequency.

The slow rising and falling ramp at base of Q1 follows at its emitter and modulates pin 5 of IC1. The slow ramp causes alternate cycles of slow rising voltage for 3 seconds, and slow decaying voltage for the 3 seconds on pin 5. Due to this pin 3 frequency and PWM also modulates accordingly generating the wailing police siren sound effect.

5) Red Alert Star Trek Alarm Circuit

The fifth circuit in the list is another very interesting sound effect generator using the IC 555 astable. It is the red-alert alarm sound generator, also called the star trek siren due to its frequent use in the popular TV series star trek.

Typically, the red alert alarm sound initiates with a low frequency tone, that rises to a high frequency note within a quick span of around 1.15 seconds, and cuts off for 0.35 seconds, and again rises from a low to high frequency, and the cycle continues giving rise to the star trek red-alert alarm sound.

Just like the previous alarm and siren sound circuits, this circuit also keeps repeating the sequence as long as it remains powered.

The IC 2 here is configured as a non symmetrical oscillator circuit. The capacitor C1 is alternately charged through the elements R1 and D1, and is alternately discharged through R2.

This produces a quick rising and fading sawtooth pluses across the capacitor C1. This ramping signal is buffered by the emitter follower and applied as a modulating voltage to the control input pin 5 of IC1 via R7.

Due to the sawtooth nature this waveform causes the pin 3 output frequency of IC1 to gradually rise for the slow decaying portion of the waveform, and then quickly drops during the collapsing part of the waveform.

During each of the decaying section of the waveform cycle, the corresponding rectangular pulse from pin 3 of IC2 instantly switches OFF Q2, which in turn causes pin2 of IC2 to go low.

This interrupts the C2 output and the rising tone on the speaker, giving rise to the peculiar red alert star trek alarm sound effect.

6) Destroyer Whooper Siren

Have you seen those good old WWII navy movies, where you might have listened to that special "whoop-whoop-whoop" siren sound as a destroyer ship cruised through the ocean waves, with its firearms blasting, and all crew members screaming "battle stations!".

The IC 555 circuit below will create the same distinctive "whooper," siren sound effect and that might cause quite many heads turn.

If you actually wish to draw attention of the folks, you can use an amplifier to boost the whooper sound effect. IC U1 is hooked up as a low-frequency asymmetrical oscillator.

Q1 inverts the output signal and supplies it to the reset terminal of U2 at pin 4. IC 555 U2 is wired as an audio oscillator and starts operating as soon as the UI 555 output goes low.

Since the U2 pin 5 constant potential constant, the circuit might only create a "bleeping." sound.

The voltage over capacitor C is applied to the transistor Q2 base, switching it on, which grounds the pin 5 of U2 555.

Once the pin4 reset signal frequency on pin 4 drops, causes the U2 output frequency to increase.

The of U2 555 then starts sounding like the "whoooop", which begins with low frequency tone, and gradually ends with a high ear piercing tone.

7) IC 555 Ambulance Siren Circuit

The sound produced resembles that of a Victorian-era ambulance siren and is intensified by incorporating components such as C2, C3, Q1, Q2, R1, and R2.

When operated with a 12-volt power source and one or two 8-ohm, 5-watt horn speakers, the output is incredibly loud at close proximity.

Besides the audio output, the only alterations made to the original circuit pertain to both timing sections of the IC 555 timers, which are responsible for generating the required frequency and modulation for the desired sound type.

For added sound modulation variety, R7 can be substituted with a 220-ohm resistor, and R8 can be replaced with a 100k trimpot, with its wiper connected to pin 7 of IC2, as illustrated.

This adjustment transforms the sound from a rapid 'whip-whip' effect in one direction to a 'wow wow' effect in the opposite direction.

The modulation ranges from approximately 6 to 7 Hz to just under 1 Hz before reaching the end of the wiper's travel.

Please note that if this alarm is intended to be used with two speakers and/or a power source exceeding 6 volts, it is crucial to equip Q1 and Q2 with moderate heatsinks.

When two speakers are employed with a power supply ranging from 9 to 16 volts, a more favorable outcome is achieved by replacing C2 and C3 with 470uF capacitors.

Here is a summary of the current consumption at different voltage levels when using 220 pF for C2 and C3, and a single 8-ohm speaker:

• 16 V: 420 mA
• 12 V: 320 mA
• 9 V: 250 mA
• 6 V: 160 mA
• 4.5 V: 100 mA

When two speakers are used, both the current draw and sound output nearly double.

Additionally, it's important to note that C1 is indispensable with any power source as it serves as a power storage element to accommodate the rapid fluctuations in current consumption.

Lastly, please exercise caution and consideration for others when testing and employing this alarm system.

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Well these were some hints regarding how to use IC 555 for creating useful alarm and siren circuits. Do you have any other interesting sound effect generator using IC 555?

If you do, please provide the details here, we will be most happy to include it in the above list.

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Create Majel Barrett AI Voice Via Star Trek Computer Voice Generator

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If you are a fan of Majel Barrett computer voice, then you're in the right place. This article is all going to be about Star Trek computer voice generator . We will guide you through a step-by-step visual demonstration of how Star Trek computer voice can be generated using a good and simple computer voice generator. So, let's start!

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Part 1: Info of The Star Trek Computer

Part 2: who is the star trek computer voice.

Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.

Star Trek: The Original Series, debuted in the US on September 8, 1966, and aired for three seasons on NBC. It followed the voyages of the crew of the starship USS Enterprise, a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century, on a mission "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before".

The Computer Operating Systems of Star Trek was voiced by Majel Barrett. She was a well-known American actress as well as a producer. Majel Barrett was Gene Roddenberry's wife, and it is considered one of the main reasons for her appearance in almost every series of Star Trek. She provided voices as well as, also performed many characters from different Star Trek series.

Majel Barrett provided consistent voices for the on-board computing systems of Star Trek; The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and many other Star Trek creations. Other than this, she energetically did different characters in the Star Trek series like the Christine Chapel, Number One, Lwaxana Troi, and many more.

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Star Trek Red Alert Sound Effect (using 555 Timers)

Introduction: Star Trek Red Alert Sound Effect (using 555 Timers)

My family went on a Star Trek kick recently and I was trying to make something related so I made this to simulate the Star Trek red alert.

First I looked online to find a circuit diagram but I couldn't find any working projects that didn't use an audio recording module. (which doesn't count!)

So I had to make my own that sounded fairly authentic, (by which I mean that I listened to the red alert in videos while adjusting the circuit) and I think I succeeded!

Step 1: Materials

The things you will need to build this are as follows:

• Power supply 5V - 15V
• 555 timers x 2
• PNP transistor (BJT)
• NPN transistor (BJT)
• Select switch
• 10KΩ potentiometer x 2
• A bypass capacitor is recommended

A voltmeter is not required but may help with circuit debug.

Step 2: Making It

(Thanks to user bricomario for the new schematic picture! I had an old one I drew in fritzing that wasn't nearly as nice.)

Put the parts together as in the schematic above.

Then you will need to adjust the potentiometers until you find the right frequency, for me that was at 1/3 of the rotation and 2/3 of the rotation respectively.

Step 3: Theory

Now here comes the theory, if you are too scared (of theory) or already understand how it works then you can be finished!

First you need to understand the 555 timer .

The first 555 timer is an astable multi-vibrator that is controlled by the voltage from the switch, when the voltage is high then it operates normally, but when the voltage is low it inhibits the operation of the 555 using the reset pin.

Then when the output of the 555 goes high it charges the capacitors through the diode, which as they discharge slowly through the 10KΩ resistor (labeled R4) they create the changing tone you hear.

When the first 555 is high then the second is inhibited, but when it goes low the second is enabled to create the tones determined by the capacitor's charge level.

Now use your voltmeter to measure the voltage at the base of the PNP transistor, as the LED flashes you should be able to see the change in the voltage.

Now put your meter's leads in series with the speaker and measure the current through the speaker.

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