Feature request: Special use case

[knot....@gmail.com]

Hi Carl,

I'm a Mechanical Engineer that happily plays with the community. As such I get asked all sorts of questions by acquaintances. A home car mechanic was asking about the difference between live and fixed belt tensioners and how to set belt tension properly. I have found a formal system for shops to use (A and B ) but they are too expensive for home mechanics. I have been playing with Spectroid and it looks like the measurement can be done with the current Spectroid app if the users really know what they are doing. Is there any chance you'd be willing to create a variation of spectroid with an absolutely dead simple interface for doing exactly one task?

Ideally the mechanic strikes the belt and the screen shows the 1st order resonant frequency of the belt as a number. The frequencies are in the 0-400hz range.

The part that may be tricky is that there might be significant background noise. In this case, maybe they hit a button right before they twang the belt. They should be able to hold the phone between ½" to 4” away from the belt. The number would stay on the screen until they hit the button again. (The screen will likely not be visible until they pull the phone out of the engine compartment.)

I'd be happy to go test any prototypes to see if they work in a real environment.

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Lopii

[Aguaviva]

I could do this, could you provide some recordings of the sounds that need analyzing?