Nick Johnson has this very interesting project on he’s page. He talk about allaways having trouble getting up for work and how all commercial alarm clocks are too easy to turn off. My personal opinion that is true, though I don’t have a big problem on waking up. And if i feel very tired and i have a big day coming up my solution is to just place the Alarm clock far from the bed, so i have to get up and walk a few steps to turn it off, this method never fails for me. But Nicks’s project is also very fun to build and i have to say very original too, i never seen something like this. The design is powered by a PIC16 microcontroller, which manages the user interface and keeps time. It displays the current time and the arithmetic challenge via an lcd. Nick offers the design as free and open source. If you would like more info visits project page using the links bellow.
A real Alarm Clock that really wakes you up:
[Link] – [Source Code] – [Schematic] – [Board Layout]
