“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
In the middle of July?
I don’t think there’s much chance of snow days around here…
You forget that south of the equator it’s currently winter…
Here isn’t south of the equator.
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?
Why is this on OSNews at all? This is the most useless post in a while, for a most useless homebrew piece of hard/software.
Yet you still found it important enough to read and compose a reply.
Sometimes showing your dismay helps to clear the mind
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JAL