Alarmclock puzzle

[nickd]

Reminds me of "Clocky"
http://www.nandahome.com/products/clocky/index.php

Just need to give the Freerunner some wheels (pun intended)


Michael Shiloh wrote:
> +1
>
> Very clever. This is the kind of innovation I look forward to from 
> this group.
>
> It should be possible to distinguish between intentional shaking and 
> being thrown across the room, which would not reset the snooze but 
> would keep on ringing.
>
>
>
> Arne Kristian Jansen wrote:
>> Or you could use the accelerometer to "wind"up the clock/snooze. Just 
>> shake it two times to snooze for 1 min more or something like it. And 
>> after each snooze you have to shake more and more to get the same 
>> snoozetime, i.e. for the second snooze you'd have to shake say four 
>> times to add one minute.
>>
>>
>> - Arne Kristian
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2008/5/13 Steven ** <montgoss+openmokocommunity at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:montgoss%2Bopenmokocommunity at gmail.com>>:
>>
>>     I have a similar problem, but came up with a slightly different
>>     approach.  I tend to snooze too much, so mine focuses on the snooze
>>     button.
>>
>>     You'd start with 1 big snooze button that snoozes for x minutes.
>>     After x minutes, alarm sounds again, but there are now two or three
>>     buttons. Maybe you have to hit them in a particular order. Maybe 
>> pick
>>     2 that are the right color. Snoozes for another x minutes.
>>     Next, has a screen with 9 buttons (big enough to use with fingers).
>>     The buttons flash (maybe play a sound) in a pattern. You have to
>>     repeat the pattern to snooze again.
>>     Etc
>>
>>     Have snooze time configurable. User enters comma-separated list. 
>> Last
>>     number in list is repeated. Ie "10,9,5"
>>
>>     What do you think?
>>
>>     -Steven
>>
>>     On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Alexander Frøyseth
>>     <alexander.froyseth at gmail.com <mailto:alexander.froyseth at gmail.com>>
>>     wrote:
>>      > Hello again
>>      >  I just have an idea for an nice addon or software (call it what
>>     you want)
>>      > to the alarmclock
>>      >  Okey, let me tell a little story from real life.
>>      >  Every day when I go to school, I have to wake up, and now I 
>> have 2
>>      > alarmclocks, but still I manage to oversleep. Soo what I was
>>     thinking about
>>      > was that I have to solve a puzzle to turn the alarmclock off, and
>>     not just
>>      > push a button. One possibility is a 4 bits jigsaw puzzle like 
>> this:
>>      >
>>      >
>>     
>> http://www.bimbambanana.com/index.php?p=Puzzle-alarm-clock-cool-gadgets&side=visProd&prod_id=21 
>>
>>     
>> <http://www.bimbambanana.com/index.php?p=Puzzle-alarm-clock-cool-gadgets&side=visProd&prod_id=21> 
>>
>>      >  another, and perhaps an more easy to make is that the screen
>>     shows fours
>>      > digits that you have to click in right order to turn it off.
>>     Perhaps like an
>>      > antibot test on websites.
>>      >
>>      >  I am more as an web programmer, so I isent so good to program
>>     software.
>>      >
>>      >  NOTE: You have to have the choice to turn this on and off when
>>     you sets the
>>      > clock
>>      >  Hope that someone think this is a good idea, and tries to
>>     program one.
>>      >
>>      >  Alexander Frøyseth
>>      >
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