If you want power attach an electric air compressor to the bottom of your bed with a timer set for the time you need to be up. It'll shake the wallpaper off the walls
If you want power attach an electric air compressor to the bottom of your bed with a timer set for the time you need to be up. It'll shake the wallpaper off the walls
Jeff7
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Note, it's not genuinely a bed shaker. It's more like a souped up cellphone vibrator. Put it under your pillow. The first few times, it'll probably jar you awake in a hurry. Maybe it's more like having a 20lb bumblebee under your pillow.
Just disable the sound portion of the alarm, or be really careful not to accidentally set it. I've never heard it, but those things have a rating that's at least as loud, if not louder, than a smoke detector.
I used a vibrating alarm clock during a semester at college - I really wish I'd have had that brilliant idea, oh, I don't know, a few years sooner. People all over the place, yelling loudly about sports, stomping on the floor upstairs, playing guitars (electric or not), or just talking nonstop; well I couldn't wear earplugs, because then how would I hear the alarm clock. After about 2 years, that's when it finally dawned on me: "Well earplugs make be pretty well deaf.....deaf.....yeah, how does someone who's deaf wake up in the morning?" So I Google'd for "deaf alarm clock" and found the solution - a Sonic Boom alarm clock.
Other advice: get a UPS to go along with it. The clock has a battery backup, but the vibrating thing runs off a 12V adapter. If you're good with circuits, a more efficient route might be to just get a decent lead-acid battery charger, and hook the vibrator right to the battery. That bypasses the inefficiency (and cost) of having the UPS convert 120VAC to 12VDC for the battery, which is then converted back to 120VAC by an inverter, and back again to 12VDC by the power adapter, to feed the vibrator. Charger + battery = efficient backup.
If you really want to build a bed shaker, maybe get an old garage door opener and attach an offset weight to the shaft. Use a relay off of the Sonic Boom then to trigger it.
I guess that might wake up your parents too though.
alkemyst
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- Feb 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
They don't mind floor, they have $450 memory foam mattress on it
And good stuff is that they don't stare at me since I am above & we can't see each other.
Dude, you are alone in your bed, it's probably better you aren't staring at them.
HomeBrewerDude
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- Jan 18, 2001
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Use an appliance timer and some wire with alligator clips attached to the ends. Just attach a clamp to each nipple before you fall asleep and rest well assured that you'll be awake as soon as that timer hits 7 am.
well, i don't know how much power you'll receive from sb200. i personally think sb300ss is better due to bigger led screen. the leds would even dim if alarm goes off. it has two different kind of vibration; steady and pulse. it also includes three different kind of outlets you want to wake up from; lamp, vibration and both. volume and tone are there as well. it has a lot of features you can choose from. it's not going to hurt you though.
but one small con is sometimes alarm doesn't go off. it happened to me like maybe 5 times every year. so just bring an extra alarm in case. i wake up everyday via both of my clock and my phone.
There is an alarm clock plugin for Winamp that will start playing music at a preset time. Put a subwoofer under your bed and have the computer play something like superbasstest.mp3 and it should make you think there's an earthquake.
BeauJangles
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Off topic question: do you have a special cell phone that's louder than normal, or can hear on a regular one?
2nd off topic question: why do you sleep in the same room as your parents? (not judging, just curious)
2nd off topic question: why do you sleep in the same room as your parents? (not judging, just curious)
Raduque
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- Aug 22, 2004
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A better idea is an Buttkicker instead of the subwoofer. An actual subwoofer would be too loud and would wake everybody else up.
Who sleeps in the other bedroom?
I'd just sleep out on a coach and use the timer to turn on some lights in that room.
I'd just sleep out on a coach and use the timer to turn on some lights in that room.
UPDATE:
I set my cell phone to use audible alarm at 7:15 am.
That web site should call me 7:00 am (vibe).
I have to wake up only 4 times a week, mon-thursday, so I didn't get to test the web site/sound alarm yet (at 7:15 cell phone sound alarm is okay since by then everybody in the room should be up.)
My slightly younger brother sleeps in other bedroom. It is smaller than mine & my parent's bedroom, we decided to give him his own room because everybody got tired libing with him: he lives like a pig. Unwashed dishes, trash, clothes, etc - room is a complete mess. I used to live in same room as him before and said fuck it I'd rather live with parents.
Buttkicker??! ZOMG I GOTTA CHECK THAT OUT!!!
Deflating mattress? Pretty cool but != cheap.
I set my cell phone to use audible alarm at 7:15 am.
That web site should call me 7:00 am (vibe).
I have to wake up only 4 times a week, mon-thursday, so I didn't get to test the web site/sound alarm yet (at 7:15 cell phone sound alarm is okay since by then everybody in the room should be up.)
My slightly younger brother sleeps in other bedroom. It is smaller than mine & my parent's bedroom, we decided to give him his own room because everybody got tired libing with him: he lives like a pig. Unwashed dishes, trash, clothes, etc - room is a complete mess. I used to live in same room as him before and said fuck it I'd rather live with parents.
Buttkicker??! ZOMG I GOTTA CHECK THAT OUT!!!
Deflating mattress? Pretty cool but != cheap.
If everyone (by everyone, just your mom and dad?) in the room should be up by 7:15am, why do your parents not want to wake you up at 7am? If they get up at 7:15am, I'd just sleep till then and have them wake me up then, and move a little faster getting ready (although I don't know what that means for a guy... I put on clothes and contacts, do sub, grab an apple or something simple, then I bounce).
I'd still choose sleeping in the room with little bro. Beat his ass and tell him to clean that crap up. When my older brother and I lived in the same room for a while (bunk beds), I'd pretty much obey him on things cause he could beat my ass anyway if he wanted to. So lay down the lay with him. My parents would've never let me have a trashed room (especially dirty dishes and garbage) at a young age. They owned the house, they supported me, so the least I could do was obey them about a clean room.
That said, I'd still sleep on a coach in the living room. And skip that 8am.. fuck waking up early, I hate that crap. And beat little brothers ass just for good measure.
I'd still choose sleeping in the room with little bro. Beat his ass and tell him to clean that crap up. When my older brother and I lived in the same room for a while (bunk beds), I'd pretty much obey him on things cause he could beat my ass anyway if he wanted to. So lay down the lay with him. My parents would've never let me have a trashed room (especially dirty dishes and garbage) at a young age. They owned the house, they supported me, so the least I could do was obey them about a clean room.
That said, I'd still sleep on a coach in the living room. And skip that 8am.. fuck waking up early, I hate that crap. And beat little brothers ass just for good measure.
Actually mom leaves at 6AM.
Brother (in other room) sleeps till 8.
Dad is supposed to wake up at 7:15 or 7:30, depending on the day. He does NOT kick me awake at same time when he wakes up :| IDK why, maybe he wants to use restroom/sink before me?
My morning routine is like this:
1. Get up
2. Restroom
3. Boil water
4. Make black tea
5. Drink tea with something while getting a peek of whats new on the Internet (email, forums) - my large table allows this, in fact I always eat at my computer table.
6. Bounce
edit: Maybe if everything is bad I'll go to living room.
My brother is only 1.5 years younger than me (I'm 19), so beating his ass might not be easy. Besides I'm moving outta here shortly (in 1 or 3 years). Parents were not strict enough with him, and I don't wanna do their job. It's too late.
I'm not gonna beat his ass.
I don't mind waking up early, I MADE my classes start at 8am (partially so Dad would drive me to campus instead of me taking the bus+walking). Couple kicks to bed is all I need to start my day
I don't mind waking up early, I MADE my classes start at 8am (partially so Dad would drive me to campus instead of me taking the bus+walking). Couple kicks to bed is all I need to start my day
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