[Lab] Looking for ideas

nfk edgecity at rogers.com
Sun Nov 18 15:47:27 EST 2012


has she tried using a cell phone alarm on vibrate and sleeping with it under the pillow?  

On 2012-11-17, at 10:48 PM, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 06:42:26PM -0500, Bruce Harding wrote:
>> I've re-thought that, and I think something that would fit on her side of the 
>> bed near her head or under pillow would be better for me. :-)  I was thinking 
>> of using an old electric toothbrush motor similar in a way to the suggestion 
>> from other person that replied.
> 
> So just hook the alarm clock output to the toothbrush motor.  No need for an
> Arduino.  Ok, maybe it needs a transistor, but not a whole Arduino.
> 
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>> Bruce Harding
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>> On November 17, 2012 06:09:18 PM you wrote:
>>> You could drive a motor controller to a high speed motor and off set weight
>>> attached to the bed to shake the bedframe 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- Sent from my HP TouchPad
>>> On 17 Nov 2012 5:51 PM, Bruce Harding <bruce.harding at faintfuzzies.ca> wrote:
>>> My wife is losing her hearing and I'd like to build her a few things with
>>> Arduino's that could help her out.
>>> 
>>> Her hearing is like this 1/4 in one ear and 1/2 in the other. This week the
>>> alarm went off for 8 minutes before I got tired of listening to it and came
>>> up stairs to wake her up. The problem is she was sleeping on her good ear.
>>> 
>>> So I was thinking what about a Arduino that recognizes her alarm and a.)
>>> vibrates the bed or b.) vibrates something under her pillow or c.) a string
>>> of flashing bright LED's or d.) open the blinds or e.) all of the above?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So if you seen a similar project or have ideas on how I can proceed let me
>>> know.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I've also got to apply this at some point to our door bell as well.
>>> --
>>> Bruce Harding
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