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The Explosive Alarm Clock is a fully-functional alarm clock made with an old beeping alarm clock. You need: 1. Electronic alarm clock 2. Cardboard r...
Take in pieces the old alarm clock.
Cut the cardboard roll and made 6 pieces 20 cm.
Wrap the stick with the packaging paper and fixed it with transparent tape.
Use hot glue to glue the power supply and tie together the six bars. Positions the display at the center and fix it with the hot glue
Apply electrical tape on both sides
Twist the electric wire of a pen to achieve this effect.
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the only thing I would do different, would be to use PVC pipes instead of cardboard tubes for the "dynamite". Perhaps at that point you could make a cavity inside of the assembly to hide the transformer in the middle of it. it would minimize the exposed live wires.
And, of course, if you had an alarm assembly that could be run off of batteries, then one of the pipes could be used as a battery holder.
....go big or go home! If you can add a battery...having said battery pack strapped to the "Package" would only make it look More real.....Hmmm.....MAYBE that Wouldn't be such a Hot idea... LOL
....and yeah, I'm making one as well. My wife is gonna KILL me! (LMAO)
You could wrap wood dowel with the paper. It would add a bit of weight to the project and would not crush. The middle tube could be be a 1.5" PVC pipe to be used as a battery holder.
Another thing I though of is that you could implement this with an PIC or something similar, and have the alarm count down after turning the alarm on for the night making it more realistic. The use of a wall wort power supply may work for powering the clock as long as the module has an onboard cyrstal oscillator. Many clocks need 60Hz to keep the time, but then, some don't.
I think I might make a few of these for Christmas presents Dec 2013!
It's a lot of fun - both making it and giving it as a present to a kid. Mine loves it.
The genius of it is it's really easy to do and actual makeshift solutions only make the design more credible.
My humble modifications:
- I left the transformer in the original clock case this way only low voltage wires go to the 'bomb' (it reduces the risk of electric shock and while I don't think this clock's power consumption would make the transformer overheat putting it next to a bunch of paper makes me nervous)
- my clock came with a 9V backup battery which I taped to the top which makes up for the missing twisted wires which give the original design a nice touch
- I printed some DANGER EXPLOSIVE labels inspired by a hasty Google image search.
Big thanks for this instructable!!
Here's what mine looks like:
Texas Penal Code--
46.08. Hoax Bombs
(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly manufactures, sells, purchases, trans- ports, or possesses a hoax bomb with intent to use the hoax bomb to:
(1) make another believe that the hoax bomb is an explosive or incendiary device; or
(2) cause alarm or reaction of any type by an official of a public safety agency or volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies.
(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
(13) "Hoax bomb" means a device that:
(A) reasonably appears to be an explosive or incendiary device; or
(B) by its design causes alarm or reaction of any type by an official of a public safety agency or a volunteer agency organized to deal with emergencies. ...
Your intention may be innocent but building something like this might get you into a sticky legal situation. The onus would be on you to prove in court that it was not your intention to "cause alarm".
Section 13 basically reads: "(13)A 'hoax bomb' is a device that (B) alarms a cop"
It gives way too much room to abuse. A crooked cop can arrest or shoot whoever they want, and say he/she saw the defendant/deceased reaching for a bomb. Bombs can be made to look like anything, therefore anything can look like a bomb.
https://www.google.com/search?q=bomb+alarm+clock
The pun was not intended but made me chuckle.
That said, this is a toy. An awesome toy. I knew people who were killed by drowning, hit by a car, gravity, obesity and a falling tree. This is no reason for me to expect, or even to ask, someone to remove something they created if I find it distasteful. I wouldn't ask someone to remove something related to cars, physics, cooking, or lumberjacking.
Would you ask everyone to refrain from doing anything creative in the future in honor of the people that will die? We need a lot less of your attitude. Nobody said anything about going to an all-you-can-eat buffet immediately after the funeral visitation for an overweight relative who died of a stroke. Nobody said "maybe we should all just get salads" (although a few in the group should have done so themselves). You've got to live while you're alive, you don't want to realize on your deathbed that you've never lived!
Great build btw, thanks for sharing this with all of us!
ALWAYS CUT THE RED WIRE!!
Yes you should!
The heat is one aspect, the other is outright FIRE HAZARD!
Still, great idea, needs better execution.
Making one for my son, bet he flies over the floor when he sees it beside his bed beeping in the morning.
I am Canadian, with a Very Dry sense of Humour.
Can I put it in my Carry On Bag or should I stow it under the plane?
"BEEP-BEEP"
It's a prop, it's not hurting anyone.
Americans are rapidly turning into fearful, cowering sheep, despite the simple fact that one is orders of magnitude more likely to die in a car accident than from a "terrorist event." The purpose of terrorism is to spread terror, and so by being fearful of every little thing, it gives those who wish to wield fear as a tool of control every reason to continue to do so (e.g. terrorists, and the legislators who take advantage of "terror events" to push their agenda).
The reality is that the world is a violent, random, chaotic place, even before taking into account things like terrorism and intentional violence. When you look objectively, you find that living in constant fear of terrorism is like living in fear of lightning strikes or shark attacks. It's irrational.
But again, most people don't know these things, all they know they learned on TV.