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Fabian Kurz → Ham Radio → Stuff
I've always been a night owl and never managed to get out of bed easily in the morning. That is, until I started using my Morse Code Alarm Clock!
Instead of listening to the usual beep beep, I added a line to my crontab, which starts my 'wakeup'-script. What does it do?
Depending on the amount of mail that arrived while I was sleeping, the whole thing takes between one and five minutes. And usually one of the mails is a good enough reason to get up!
It is running on my little Dell Inspiron Mini 12 netbook, which I keep running overnight. It doesn't have any fans and the harddisk goes to sleep, so it's completely silent.
Scripts: wakeup.pl (Wunderground) wakeup-dwd.pl (DWD) - Wrapper around ebook2cw for the 'morse' command: morse.sh
Update (2013-10-15): Another alarm clock related to Morse code: "Morning-Morse" by nietka (dunja rosina) and anap (ana pavlisic) at the Berlin Geekettes Hackathon II (October 11-13, 2013).
Added: 14-Jul-2010. Last modified: 15-Oct-2013.