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Alarm flags
Little flags that wave when the alarm clock goes off | |
A long pennant is carried at the end of a light rod pivoted and moved vertically by a voice coil motor which is rotated about a horizontal axis by a stepper motor, both controlled by the signals from a microcontroller programmed with different movement patterns according to the type of alarm.
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path of the tip of the rod will be followed by the pennant due to aerodynamic forces much like a laser painting an outline.
For example, the outline of a feline head followed by that of a saucer would mean that it is now time to give kitty her milk.
Mechanically scanning LED clock
http://engineering..../GuthrieBovill.html
What StarChaser says: clock traces out a pattern in the air using fast-moving LEDs. [pottedstu, Jan 04 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
This is the specific clock I was talking about.
http://shopping.dis...tId=11402&langId=-1
Rather neat. [StarChaser, Jan 05 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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How do you program the pattern you want? |
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<grin> Little waving flags and lots of blinkenlights... |
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In a semaphore pattern. "W A K E U P, F O O L!" |
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Peter: I've got one of those clocks...there's another sort that does kind of the same thing, but has a propellor sort of dealie. It can show the time or messages or lots of stuff... |
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phoenix: I know it is January. And there is a risk of freezing. Anyway, open Windoze. Brrrr ... Open a vector drawing program and draw the shape you need. A conversion and communication program will download the x and y coordinates required by the microcontroller into a battery backed memory, possibly through a porno chewer type of link. |
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Uhhh, yeah, sure! Those blinkenlights and waving flags will wake me right up! And the last cat I met was pretty insistent in getting its own way without the help of an alarm. Sorry, neelandan, fishbone. |
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Methinks t'would be much easier to have pre-recorded voice message reminders play through the speaker or install an LCD screen to display an appropriate graphic for each task or event. |
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Pottedstu: That's not the one I was thinking of, although those are cool anyway...I found it, if anyone wants to see it, a link appears. |
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Canuck: The point is not to be awakened, it's to be cool. This would be really cool. |
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As StarChaser said, idea baked, automatic croissant |
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