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Face-slapping alarm clock refuses to let you sleep in

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Simone Giertz describes herself as a professional maker and robotics enthusiast. She also acknowledges a special expertise in crummy robots. Her latest project is the stuff nightmares are made of. It’s a mechanized alarm clock that uses a fake arm to smack the sleeper awake.

The Wake-Up Machine is a DIY wall-mounted robot that you position above your head. When the alarm goes off, a rubber arm whips around, slapping you until you get up and get out of the way.

Giertz posted a video on November 11 that follows along with the build process. There’s enough information there to get you started on making a robo-alarm of your very own if you already have some maker tendencies.
via cnet

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2 thoughts on “Face-slapping alarm clock refuses to let you sleep in”

  1. Good children of the world will of course choose vagus nerve interference devices, automated room blinds on light days, and canny direction of the projector on their cellphone to stop recording long-term memories and stop the second phase of rapid skeletomuscular recovery.

    Or sure, a boxing simulator that gets in some deep tissue massage and takes notes, washes, balms and moisurizes, lets you recover, then throws down a couple of pile drivers. It would turn and stuff!

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