[Lab] Looking for ideas

[Jean-Marc LeBlanc]

That's what I do when I don't want to wake up my wife when I leave early


On 11/18/12, nfk <edgecity at rogers.com> wrote:
> 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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>>> 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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