This is my first Instructable so I hope everyone enjoys.
In the mornings I tend to have trouble getting out of bed. I have tried setting multiple clocks, putting the clocks acroos the room, and still I find a way to turn them off and get back into bed. I figured that making it more difficult to turn the alarm off on my clock would help me wake up.
I have been looking around instructables to find an idea to help but most of them look to be higher than my skill when it comes to working with electronics, so I came up with the Clock Cage.
In the mornings I tend to have trouble getting out of bed. I have tried setting multiple clocks, putting the clocks acroos the room, and still I find a way to turn them off and get back into bed. I figured that making it more difficult to turn the alarm off on my clock would help me wake up.
I have been looking around instructables to find an idea to help but most of them look to be higher than my skill when it comes to working with electronics, so I came up with the Clock Cage.
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Now for me this build only cost $2.00 because most of the items I had laying around. I am sure most people have some of theses materials somewhere around your home or you can recycle something that's broken.
Material:
A Clock (not in picture) - for the cage I perfer a battery clock. they cost about $3 to $5
A somewhat see-through container - found a CD case on clearence at wal-mart for $1
A piece of scrape wood bigger than the container - if you had to buy some I wouldn't think more
than $5
A piece of 3 feet or so of 1"x1" wood to attach the container to and hinge the base - again $2 or $3
A padlock or combination lock - $3 or $4
Some small screws - I think a pack is about $1.50
Some wire and a picture hanger - you can get a pack at Wal-Mart for about $4
A pack of small hingers (not in picture) - They cost $0.97
Note: I will say some of these materials can be substutited, for instance instead of wire you can use a zip tie, instead of screws you can use nails (but it has to be the ones with heads, there are some nails that dont).
The tools needed:
A pair of pliers
A screwdriver
A drill with a bit alittle smaller the the screws
A tablesaw, jigsaw, or powersaw -- anything to cut the wood to shape, just use caution with any
power tools you use.
Material:
A Clock (not in picture) - for the cage I perfer a battery clock. they cost about $3 to $5
A somewhat see-through container - found a CD case on clearence at wal-mart for $1
A piece of scrape wood bigger than the container - if you had to buy some I wouldn't think more
than $5
A piece of 3 feet or so of 1"x1" wood to attach the container to and hinge the base - again $2 or $3
A padlock or combination lock - $3 or $4
Some small screws - I think a pack is about $1.50
Some wire and a picture hanger - you can get a pack at Wal-Mart for about $4
A pack of small hingers (not in picture) - They cost $0.97
Note: I will say some of these materials can be substutited, for instance instead of wire you can use a zip tie, instead of screws you can use nails (but it has to be the ones with heads, there are some nails that dont).
The tools needed:
A pair of pliers
A screwdriver
A drill with a bit alittle smaller the the screws
A tablesaw, jigsaw, or powersaw -- anything to cut the wood to shape, just use caution with any
power tools you use.
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Or at least it used to be, until i figured to use the alarm on my phone at the loudest setting and place it on my pillow right next to my ear.
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This ible is brilliant btw. I've tried all the above suggestions as well (setting multiple alarms, setting them far away, etc) but I never would've thought to make the alarm clock harder to get to. Genius. This will save me from another day being late to work!
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The problem I have with these is they mostly underestimate the duration of the window in which I can go back to sleep after being woken. I could be made to walk down to the bottom of the garden in the snow wearing only boxers to retrieve the key to unlock the cabinet holding the Rubix cube which I have to solve before I can find in which order to turn off eighteen different alarm clocks in different rooms... and then go back to sleep :)
I favour a more carrot than stick approach- make it more desirable to be out of bed than in bed. All you really need for that is a coffee machine and a timeswitch (or a teasmade if you have more taste in caffeinated breakfast beverages).
The only other thing that has worked so far was taping my clock to the ceiling.
5* and faved :D
It was just one of those cheapo tiny alarm clocks I found at a goodwill anyway. So I didn't mind it shattering over my floor, until I stepped on it...
I don't need it now, as I wake up, get my son up and get to work with a number (5, actually) of different alarms on my mobile. One is half an hour before getting up, one is when I should get up, one is ten minutes before getting my son up nd have breakfast ready, one is when he must leave to be at school on time and one (happy, dane song) when I must leave the flat to get to work. By a combnation of 10 - 15 minute warning (for breakfast, school and work, as we walk to school/ work) and the 9-minute snooze on my first alarm, I go through my first hour and a half like a zombie, according to different sounds!
5 stars!
this will be really helpful for me
Here's my idea, and also how i wake up completely rested:
Buy an electric timer and connect it to a bright lamp.
If you normally (without alarm clock would wake up at
theese times (below) Set the timer like this:
6 am; timer at 4 am
7 am; timer at 4:30 am
8 am; timer at 4;45 am
9 am, timer at 5 am
etc...
Put a blue lightbulb in the lamp. Blue light is the light humans gets most awaken of. (excuse my English, i'm Norwegian)
Just in case, use an alarm clock and set it to ten minutes before you want to get up.