My new years resolution: getting out of bed on time! ("Yeah, right" someone to my left now murmurs...). I noticed that in 2015 three of my favourite makers made souped up versions of alarm clocks that are guaranteed to get you out of bed. In order of aggressiveness:
Colin Furze: one of my maker heros. The man can do magic with metal. He made an ejection-bed that, you guessed it, throws you out of bed when the alarm rings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVzn1pl4nlo
Simone Giertz: This maker-queen appeared "out of the blue" (to me) on the maker-scene. She makes not overly complicated, but very, very funny contraptions. Such as her "slap-in-the-face-wake-up-machine".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXLzfAHl4-k
Don't want to be woken up so ... physically? "Maakbare Wereld" colleague Ernst Arbouw hooked his alarm clock to a fire alarm, boosting the volume from 58 to 81 dB. Read his column in "De Volkskrant" here (in Dutch).
There you have it, three ways to never oversleep again. Off course, the ultimate wake-up machine none of them are. That was cooked up by Wallace a while back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqGTtFIZm5Y