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I sure do love my labor-saving devices. But when they require constant tending, like a little chirping Tamagotchi that doesn't actually chirp at you when it's hungry or when it needs you to flush the toilet for it, it just festers in it's own filth and gets sick and then when you go to play a game it's gone off to rice planet along with your carbonized rice... I AM VERY BITTER ABOUT THE RICE COOKER.
So instead, I made a rice alarm that alerts you when the rice has stopped heating and is instead in a sort of rice quantum superposition, neither cooked nor uncooked, and festering it's Venusian cloud of rice vapor. This way the cooker can be even more obnoxiously helpless in it's need for constant tending. It should work on any cooker with a flip switch on the front. You know the kind I mean. The irritatingly simple kind that doesn't even have an LCD display so you can play that little worm game on it, where you eat little squares and run into your tail. Worm tron or whatever.
Although the idea of a virtual pet appliance, like a fridge whose avatar evolves based on what foods you put in it, seems a little interesting. Actually this instructable is rather mundane so this is me giving it some semblance of interest.
AND NOW FOR A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME:
So instead, I made a rice alarm that alerts you when the rice has stopped heating and is instead in a sort of rice quantum superposition, neither cooked nor uncooked, and festering it's Venusian cloud of rice vapor. This way the cooker can be even more obnoxiously helpless in it's need for constant tending. It should work on any cooker with a flip switch on the front. You know the kind I mean. The irritatingly simple kind that doesn't even have an LCD display so you can play that little worm game on it, where you eat little squares and run into your tail. Worm tron or whatever.
Although the idea of a virtual pet appliance, like a fridge whose avatar evolves based on what foods you put in it, seems a little interesting. Actually this instructable is rather mundane so this is me giving it some semblance of interest.
AND NOW FOR A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME:
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things you will need*:
- low voltage piezo buzzer
- 9v battery and holder
- red LED
- toggle switch
- microswitch
- 390ohm resistor
- various lengths of wire
- double-sided adhesive foam
- Soldering Iron, solder, sponge, etc.
- helping hands
- wire cutters
- glue gun
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I know exactly the sort of rice cooker you mean; I have one. But I'm not sure where to find things like a buzzer, microswitch and battery holder since I've never tried anything like this before. I don't have a soldering gun, etc., either.
But, thank you for posting this! I hope it helps someone who forgot to comment.