Old Alarm Clock Problems
- wake’s Quozl’s wife, a side-effect,
- needs to be armed each evening,
- 12-hour clock, cannot be armed more than 11.5 hours before alarm time,
- triggers at plus or minus ten minutes, depending on how it was dropped,
- battery cover needs to be removed to change time,
- changing time at daylight saving loses minutes and seconds,
- immitated by rural birdlife, causing false triggers,
- second hand has failed from repeated dropping,
- closed source implementation.
New Alarm Clock Features
- wakes Quozl up each day,
- doesn’t wake Quozl’s wife,
- defaults to wake Quozl up the next day, doesn’t need to be told,
- can be told at any time in the previous day not to wake Quozl up,
- can be configured accurately without having to hold buttons down,
- can emit per-second tick noises, or not,
- can emit tones in response to key presses, or not,
- can be told that Quozl is on holidays,
- changing time for daylight saving can retain minutes and seconds,
- open source, capable of being further hacked.
Not yet features
- automatic daylight saving transitions,
- gradual daylight saving alarm time shifts,
- weekend alarm suppression,
- recording of how long it took to wake Quozl up,
- serial port for GUI configuration,
- synchronisation using NTP or rdate over PPP or SLIP,
For more detail: Quozl’s Alarm Clock using PIC16F877