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Linked by Kroc Camen on Wed 1st Jul 2009 18:31 UTC

"Snow days are great, but generally you still have to wake up to find out if it is a snow day. [insingertech] decided to make a system to solve this problem. He made an alarm clock that would automatically de activate if school is cancelled. What a pleasant surprise it would be to just wake up and find that you had been allowed to sleep in. It is using an Arduino and a python script to control the state of the alarm based off of an online school closing announcement. You can download the software from the instructable." Via Hack-a-Day

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WTF?

by charlieb on Wed 1st Jul 2009 19:25 UTC

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2008-12-16

In the middle of July?

I don't think there's much chance of snow days around here...

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RE: WTF?

by umccullough on Wed 1st Jul 2009 20:08 UTC in reply to "WTF?"

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2006-01-26

You forget that south of the equator it's currently winter...

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RE[2]: WTF?

by charlieb on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 19:44 UTC in reply to "RE: WTF?"

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2008-12-16

Here isn't south of the equator.

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Redundant arduino

by jessta on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 07:53 UTC

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2005-08-17

I brought an Arduino a few months ago and haven't been able to think of a useful project to use it for.

It's a cool project but the Arduino seems a bit redundant. Why hook the computer up to the alarm clock when the computer can just play the alarm sound?

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Why?

by jal_ on Thu 2nd Jul 2009 08:08 UTC