The Idea is Born
Our internal development name
During the final year, all Electrical Engineering students at Northeastern University are required to complete a capstone project. A final senior design, seen as the culmination of five years of education.
We spent most of the Spring coming up with our idea, the self-setting alarm clock. The plan was to design an alarm clock from scratch, with internet connectivity. It would connect to your Google Calendar to determine your first task for the next day, pass it through an algorithm that gathered additional information, and then wake you up at the ideal time. This would be combined with a multitude of inputs and outputs, to wake you up in the way of your choosing.
We settled on a basic feature set consisting of an AVR, LCD, X10, iPod playback and control, FM Radio, and Wi-Fi connectivity to a remote server to do the heavy lifting.
Our internal development name would be the iSac.
Hello!! I am really interested in your project. It really looks good. Is it possible for you to further explain to me on how you sync the clock with google calendar?
Reuben
14 Nov 11 at 11:43 am
Hello. The clock is really an awesome product. How did you guys sync with google calendar?
Reuben
15 Nov 11 at 8:32 pm
Hey Reuben. We interfaced with the Google Calendar API to pull data and then our own web service would process it into a more simplistic dataset which would be passed down to the clock. You can see the API here: http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/v3/getting_started.html
egaertner
18 Nov 11 at 2:44 am