Waking up in the morning sucks. That's because your bed is so comfortable.
So I was thinking why not make an alarm clock that makes your bed a little bit less comfortable.
Because it slaps you in the face.
For those you having attention to detail,
this window is round and there's actually water out there, because I live on a houseboat.
So, that's not as cool as you think it is, but... that's for another video.
Basically what I did was that I got his rubber hand and I thought wouldn't it be fun if I had it slap me in the face.
And let's hope it doesn't look like a really weird porn shoot. And it kinda does but...
I guess that's OK...mom and dad.
This arm is just like a Hallowe'en prop and this was what it looked like before I, like,
cleaned it with nail polish [remover]. I don't know if you can see it, but it's a lot less bloody
and I also cut off this like terrible cut-off limb. Because I thought just having, like,
something slap you in the face to wake you up is terrifying enough without it having to look like this.
So what I did was I picked apart this alarm clock. Clocks are not made for picking apart,
because there are so many small parts. They just kind of flew all over the place
and now the clock isn't working anymore. But it did work and, basically,
what I saw was that whenever the alarm went off, it had, like, this little switch that went off
and grounded another connection. So I just put...
One of the wires goes to ground and then I have one of those to that little pad that got
grounded whenever the alarm went off.
And then I'm just reading that signal with an Arduino Uno and I'm having the Arduino Uno control
this relay that starts
this motor.
This is a motor from ServoCity and they have, like, these really nice parts.
And I tried to get ServoCity to sponsor me, but they were like, "no".
[sobs]
But I still want to put it in there. These parts are freaking awesome,
'cause they have like this, these Actobotics. They're just aluminum and they're
really easy to just, like, put stuff together and it's super sturdy--
way sturdier than I normally build stuff. And this motor is like it's pretty strong.
It's 165 rounds per minute and it has, I think its stall current is, like, 20 Amps.
So before I started using this relay right here, I burnt up a fair amount of transistors.
There's nothing that makes you feel as competent as the smell of burning electronics.
You're like, "Good job, Simone: you got the situation under control and you're burning shit up."
I was kind of hoping to just find, like, a normal transistor that,
that could provide enough current for this one and that would still be able to be
controlled from a microcontroller like the Arduino Uno, but I think that was a fool's errand,
because there is no such transistor. Or maybe there is, but then please share it in the comments,
because I haven't been able to find it. This is just a box for Band-Aids.
I mean, it's a pretty terrible construction: these are just like normal, like, what do you say in English?
"L-järn" in Swedish.
I really don't want to talk my projects down, because they're kind of like the children I never had.
There, there, uterus.
[slap] Simone, you're 25, get a grip.
Let's transition into the Wake-up Machine working right now!
♪ The Wake-up Machine ♪
[electric zap]
[ringing and slapping]
[scream of pain]
Noooo!
Ah, fuck.
[blessed silence!]
This is such a fucking mess!
Ah! Fuck this robot!
Big time!
Well, that's an improvement.
[laughing]
This is serious! I'm... I don't know how to get myself out of this shit.
Ouuuuch.
Oh, gosh.
[laughing at failure]
Getting slapped in the face with a plastic arm to wake up was actually not as painful as it might look.
Probably more humiliating than painful, actually.
I really hope you like this video and this project.
If you do, I suggest you press the like button and also that you subscribe to my channel
where I'm gonna publish a lot more fun projects like these. And if you didn't like this video and you're like,
"Aaah, I want my time baaaack." Then I'll just be like, "Noooo. You can't have your time back,
because now it's mine.
[creepy inhaling noise] and I just snorted it."
[exuberant ringing and slapping] [laughing]
I can't do this! I can't handle this alarm clock! Aah!