Data Logger help needed new member

Hi All
I need help please.
I need to log the number of times a car horn button is pressed and the duration it is pressed for.
Can you share any ideas how i can do this.
Regards
Dravid

dravidsha:
I need to log the number of times a car horn button is pressed and the duration it is pressed for.
Can you share any ideas how i can do this.

Not limited to the following but:

Yes.

You can sit in the car with the driver and paper and pen and stopwatch and record the data wanted and save the data to some form of storage (stone tablet, EEPROM, SD card, paper).

You can build a device to detect when power is supplied to the horn, increment a counter and time the horns on power duration and save the data to some form of storage (stone tablet, EEPROM, SD card, paper).

You can hire someone to do it for you.

Does this exercise have any constraints, for example no electrical connection may be made between the data logger and the car horn implying it must detect the sound pattern of the horn?
What have you been asked to log? Simply a series of durations in milliseconds or do you need a time and date stamp?
What about data export? Would an SD card do ?

dravidsha:
I need to log the number of times a car horn button is pressed and the duration it is pressed for.

Do you need for India (need a very powerful controller down to the millisecond) or Sweden (need a very long time between events)?
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