Re: Placing a Phone Call (alt awakening machinery)

[ww]

Not a telephonic solution...but:

1. Buy (or find) old style, windup alarm clock
2. Buy (or find) motion (or sound: aka mic) detector
3. Wire output of detector to amplifier
4. wire amp output to solenoid adequate to open a valve on a compressed air tank
5. Acquire airhorn (see your local junkyard or consult a railway) - disused Fire Engines are a great source.
6. Connect airhorn to compressed air via the solenoid-controlled valve
7. Install completed contraption at the foot of your bed
8. Roll out on or before the alarm clock goes off (to save your hearing and sanity, if any)
9. Program something useful (for some undetermined value of same)

    :<})

[Anonymous Monk]

:)

metal pot, tray ...

balance metal on a cup or two

place phone onto metal , turn on vibrate and sound

for added effectiveness, use one cup, off balance, on headboard (above your head)

[Sprad]

I love it! But if I did that, then next I'd have to post asking for a Perl module to assist in optimally dividing up possessions when my wife leaves me.

[Anonymous Monk]

The set partitioning problem is quite easy when it all goes into her box anyways.