Panic? Get up? Or stay in bed and continue sleep?
Ok, so sandwiching a clock on clock wasn’t the greatest idea there – what would be the next marginally smarter idea? Adding wake up alarm! In the vast sea of alarm implementations there isn’t much to be celebrated in terms of unique and clever design. So going for the context around it: How about hose dark moments in the middle of night when one suddenly wakes up wondering if the alarm goes off at the next moment.
Ikea wall clock with electronics installed to backside. Below motion sensor without casing.
It is 2016 and we are about to have flying cars soon, it would about the time to start turning old non-smart objects to smart ones. How would one make a wall clock smarter, say by an epsilon?
For long I have played with the idea on turning the most mundane objects into something completely different – so when I saw ¢ 50 Ikea RUSCH wall clock, made from semi-transparent plastic I knew it would be an opportunity to add some oddball functionality there. Ikea tuning it is, lets start putting the steroids in.
I have had enough projects with ugly prototyping cases and off-the-shelf through-wall buttons. They have always ended up with total wire mess inside. I took my chances and designed one for 3D-print, and after few kinks, failing was surprisingly easy. Continue reading