and don't forget the flyback transformer tazer across your big toes ;-/ THAT
should wake you up!

JJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter L. Peres" <plp@ACTCOM.CO.IL>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [EE]: thin weight sensor


> Well, the alarm clock is useless, try a fog horn (the kind with compressed
> air). For your application you can easily assume that weighing one leg of
> the bed is enough and use a simple spring and microswitch. A deflated auto
> inner tyre folded several times could act as spring I think. To make sure
> of success I would use a device that tosses you out of bed by lifting one
> side until it's at 45 degrees angle although there is no guarantee that
> this will work either ...
>
> Peter
>
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