William Chops Westfield wrote:

> I saw a commercial about a week ago for an alarm clock that let's you
> record anything you want to wake up to, such as someone's voice.  It said
> it was about $20.  I thought it was an advertisement for Mervyn's, but
> everyone at those stores thinks I'm nuts.
>
> I'd really like to get this for my parents, so that I can have my 3-year
> old son say something like, "Get up Grandma.  Get up Grandpa."  I think
> they'd just about die if they ever had something like that.

You can always modify an existing alarm clock by adding an ISD voice record/play
back
chip.  You can get them for ~$5US at Digi-Key in onesies.  You would just find t
he pin
that goes low/high when the alarm goes off and have it trigger the ISD chip inst
ead
of the alarm/radio.

Try:
        http://www.isd.com/index.html
or
        http://www.digikey.com/D.DKS$337200H32909

for more info.

For my two pence, I would add a PIC to keep track of weekends and defeat the ala
rm on
those days!

Michael

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