October 17, 2012

Make your own laser "sleep remaining" clock

 When you wake up in the early hours of the morning and wan to know how much more sleep you can get in - however have trouble focusing on the clock, this may be the project for you. Niravel Patel has created an interesting method of display how many hours are left in a user-set period by shining a laser pointer between vertical and horizontal. The device has a potentiometer which is set to a certain number of hours, and during that period of time the laser is rotated by a servo at a constant rate until the beam is horizontal - at which time your sleep is (theoretically) over. For example:


What a great idea. To get started, visit the project pageAnd for more, we're on twitter and Google+, so follow us for news and product updates as well.

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