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The Dynamically Programmable Alarm Clock

submitted by ButterflyKisses
1 decade 4 years 10 months 2 weeks ago

A short demo of DPAC, the Dynamically Programmable Alarm Clock.

Connects to Google Calendar over Wi-Fi, and uses the data to automatically wake you up in the morning.

Designed as an ECE Capstone project at Northeastern University, 2010.

6 Comments

Wow, this has got to be up there among the top "needlessly complicated gadgets" to have been invented this decade and the last. I've had my current alarm clock for what seems like the better part of 20 years, and it's been completing its daily task for that time without fail. It takes one day's worth of traveling to work out a time estimate to and from work in your head, then all you really need to do is add about half an hour to an hour and set your clock.

This thing just seems so prone to cause trouble. Say for instance that its connection is interrupted or it miscalculates or something.

*geek overload....braiiin! HURTING!

Adding video to channels (Geek) - requested by choggie.

Microsoft rejected this idea as being not complicated enough.

I think its a fantastic project for students to do, its better then having to go down on your professor to get a grade.

Moving this video to ButterflyKisses's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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