Probably you’ve heard lots about various types of alarm clock that are trying to get ones out of the bed. Ones require to solve some math to turn it off, others use flying helicopter that has to be found and put back, but still after doing these tasks there is still a “risk” to get to bed again. But I bet this one beats them off as it detects you are still in bed.

I know such alarms are real pain in ass and they don’t last very long, but they can save your but from meeting your boss because you’re late to work.

This particular design uses a e-field sensor placed in the bed and detect whenever sleeper gets back to sleep after alarm triggers. E-field sensor is interfaced to PDA where alarm can be turned off – actually bumped off for nine more minutes and if sensor detect you’re still in bed it starts alarm again. So don’t be late again!

Go figure, after a long hard working day, there’s nothing better to have a good night sleep to recharge our exhausted body and mind. Sometimes, it’s easy said than done, as living in this 21^st century that surrounded with numerous types of noise resources, it’s extremely hard for us to get a quality sleep without further disturbance.

If you’re one of those who having insomnia, you don’t have to spend over hundreds or thousands of dollars arranging some appointment with the psychologist. Instead, you can build the Sleep O Meter and solve up the insomnia problem instantly!

For your information, the main goal of the project is to track the movements of a person while he/she is sleeping. Let’s say, if the person has a good night sleep, then it will not move too many times during the night. Otherwise, if the person is disturbed by external factors, such as noise, light or vibration, frequent moves is going to happen throughout the night.

By tracking the moves and the presence of the person, it able to count the number of sleep hours. As a result, the user can improve his/her sleep and have a more energetic life everyday!

You’re a very humor person and you love to do something different to cheer someone up from the boring life? If you did, then this Electronic Whoopie Cushion Duex would be the excellent choice!

Basically, it’s a device that built in a rubber bag with an opening on one end. The opening is working as a valve, which is allowing the air to be flowed into the bag, but restricted flow out of the bag. Normally, the bag is placed under a seat or between the cushion of a sofa.

When a person is sitting on the chair, air is being forced out of the bag through the opening. The above mechanism will cause the bag to emit an embarrassing noise (It sounds like the person is farting).

It isn’t hard to develop this fun stuff, all you need here is an MC33794 e-field sensor IC and a specially designed seat cushion sensor. Furthermore, you’ll need an MC68HC908QY4 microcontroller, as it helps you to sense when someone sits down or gets up from the sofa/chair!

Honestly, this Electronic Whoopie Cushion Deux will be able to create the best prank, no matter at your office or home!

You want to keep the important things in the suitcase, but you’re afraid that you’ll become the target of the thieves? Well, if you have plenty of money, then you might didn’t mind to buy a high end suitcase.

Or, you might want to spend a few hours to modify and create your very own sophisticated “Antitheft Suitcase”! Honestly, the concept of this antitheft suitcase is derived from the security briefcase used by jewelry.

In this project, a piece of metal foil under the handle needs to be connected to an MC33794 e-field sensor. This step is to sense when someone is carrying the briefcase with or without permission.

In addition, three metal tabs are used to connect to other three e-field electrodes, which are serving as keypads to enter the arm or disarm codes.

Normally, by only using a proximity electrode, the device can sense the suitcase distance from its owner. Furthermore, the MC68HC908 microcontroller-based system is included into the project. Its main purpose is to sound a buzzer alarm to alert the owner, if the stranger is picking up the suitcase and runaway from the owner!

People enjoy different types of activities in their free time. Some love to spend their time on the indoor activities, while other might find outdoor sports are more thrilling and exciting!

If you’re one of those that enjoyed the outdoor activities, then you should keep yourself prepare with this backpack water level monitor!

For the extreme hikers, they have to face many possibilities during the hiking expedition. The most and crucial thing is to make sure themselves didn’t have the dehydration in the journey, as it might cause fatal if this happened in the middle of nowhere!

Hence, it’s extremely important to bring an ample water supply in a backpack. However, the hikers always faced the difficulty, where they didn’t know how much water is left inside the backpack’s bottles!

Well, thanks to the advent technology, now the backpack water level monitor can be your personal assistance. The main purpose of it is to gauge the water level in backpack, where the monitor is regularly measures the water level and display it when the user presses the button!

Beside that, it keeps track of how quickly the level drops and displays an estimate of the number of hours remaining at the present consumption rate. Let’s say, when the level drops below a guideline, a beeper is beeping and warns the user about the low supply level.

The project is built around a modified version of the Motorola board, which is containing the MC33794 e-field sensor, MC68HC908QY4 MCU and a MAX232 serial interface!