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Gadget Freak Case #130: This Gadget Gets the Children up!
Jeremy Willden's souped-up Voice-over-Internet Protocol system is a handy device for getting his slow-poke children out of bed and out the door
Design News Staff -- Design News, November 16, 2008
Jeremy Willden created a gadget to end the difficulty of getting his children up for school. He took his home Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) system and added paging speakers. He ran a set of the speakers into his childrens' rooms. Every school day, a cron job on the server generates a set of Asterisk Call files that trigger pre-recorded announcements at specific times. At 8 a.m. the message says, “It's 8 o'clock, time to get up.” At 8:10 the message says, “It's 8:10 and you should be eating breakfast by now.” New messages are played until it's time for the children to walk out the door. For those who don't have VoIP, Willden also developed a system that can be run on a home PC.
| Amt | Part Description | Allied Part # |
| 1 | Speaker | 623-2050 |
| 1 | Audio Amplifier | 733-1113 |
| 1 | Uninterruptable Power Supply | 575-0011 |
| 1 | Network Card | 647-2218 |
| 1 | Ethernet Patch Cable | 647-2086 |
| 1 | RJ45 Connectors | 510-9992 |
| 1 | Ethernet Switch | 647-2212 |
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