[Lab] Looking for ideas

[mike Jans]

My girlfriend isn't hearing impaired, but when she sleeps, she'd dead to the world and her alarm will go for minutes before she wakes up. I've found a few nudges with the elbow works just fine, but they're not always well received. An alternative to vibration could be air currents. A fan or blow dryer on a timer at the outlet, and then aimed at her head might work here, although it wouldn't work for the door bell.


> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:54:15 -0500
> From: jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com
> To: edgecity at rogers.com
> CC: Lab at artengine.ca
> Subject: Re: [Lab] Looking for ideas
> 
> 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.
> >>
> >>> --
> >>> 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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> >>
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