Re: Placing a Phone Call (alt awakening machinery)

Not a telephonic solution...but:

Buy (or find) old style, windup alarm clock
Buy (or find) motion (or sound: aka mic) detector
Wire output of detector to amplifier
wire amp output to solenoid adequate to open a valve on a compressed air tank
Acquire airhorn (see your local junkyard or consult a railway) - disused Fire Engines are a great source.
Connect airhorn to compressed air via the solenoid-controlled valve
Install completed contraption at the foot of your bed
Roll out on or before the alarm clock goes off (to save your hearing and sanity, if any)
Program something useful (for some undetermined value of same)

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Re^2: Placing a Phone Call (alt awakening machinery) by Anonymous Monk on Nov 16, 2011 at 14:08 UTC
:) metal pot, tray ... balance metal on a cup or two place phone onto metal , turn on vibrate and sound for added effectiveness, use one cup, off balance, on headboard (above your head)	[reply]
Re^2: Placing a Phone Call (alt awakening machinery) by Sprad (Hermit) on Nov 16, 2011 at 14:14 UTC
I love it! But if I did that, then next I'd have to post asking for a Perl module to assist in optimally dividing up possessions when my wife leaves me. --- A fair fight is a sign of poor planning.	[reply]
Re^3: Placing a Phone Call (alt awakening machinery) by Anonymous Monk on Nov 16, 2011 at 15:08 UTC
The set partitioning problem is quite easy when it all goes into her box anyways.	[reply]