hi,
I want to wire up a clock to a little battery operated motor. Or
basically have the motor start at a particular time.
I dont know too much about electronics and i'm a computer geek. Could
someone gimme directions!?
I would probably want to connect a digital clock to the motor, but if
analog is easier then i'll go for it
Thanks
Gideon
Hi Gideon,
I had the same problem, but tried to solve it another way.
My wife's sleep is very sensitive, so not only I have to use some
strong alarm to wake myself up, it needs to be absolutely quiet and
motionless. So no motors, sprinkling water or firing guns allowed.
After a long thought I came to a creative solution: I cold use a kind
of weak electric shocker (don't panic, I mean a VERY weak one). A
little investigation helped me to figure out that there's some kind of
"loose-weight-without-doing-exercises" device that trigger your
muscles, giving you weak but noticeable impulse. This looks like a
butterfly, was sold on TV shop channels and was claimed to burn
excessive fat. AFAIR, it does not have real clock, but does have a
timer which can be set to turn it on after any interval, from 15 min
to a day, cause it's supposed to be attached to body under the clothes
and work automatically with a given interval.
If you are not afraid of being waked up by an electric impulse, this
will SURELY wake you up fast, no matter how weak the impulse is. Looks
to me much safer than having motors near your bed while sleeping. In
any case you can weaken the impulse even more by replacing the biggest
capasitor inside the device with less uF one.