Thread: Elephantmans Dreamclock TEF device

Yes it's another novadreamer ripoff ...sort of.
Pics up soon. My digi cam is a bit sad on taking high detail closeups

Well after reading a topic here on the use of a strobe light I started thinking about using flashing light as an implanted dreamsign.
Strobe light topic:
http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13329
Always keen to do it cheaper, better, and build it with my own two hands, I did a bit of searching and found this:
"How to make the cheapest LD inducing device ever" I like this guys style
http://www.home.no/lucid/lucid/TEF.htm
He recomends using an alarm clock with the alarm triggering LEDs to flash (on the pulses of the alarm sound)
The LEDS are good. Natural red colour, low light output, and small enough to be placed into a mask if it suits.
But 1 shot a night? and no REM detection makes it a little hit and miss.
Thats where the strobe and timer had an advantage. With the timer set correctly you could get flash signals going every hour. Still no REM detection but just by shear probability, more shots means more hits, even if the are literally 'in the dark'
The following idea I believe has the benifets of both methods.
It's a fairly simple idea, use the minute hand of an analog clock to run a small circut with flashing LEDs.
The following is a description of what I used (and will use - still under developement)
It's not the easiest thing to put together, it dose take a bit of a fine touch to get the contacts to brush the minute hand just right, but the idea is prety basic.
At the moment I have only completed the timer section. It seems to function perfectly, and provides about 30sec of 'ON' time every hour.
The clock I used was a cheap Quarzt movement type powerd by a single AA battery.
LED Power supply is a standard 9v drycell battery.
Brush contacts and moving hand contact are solid copper strands out of CAT5 network cable.
I used a strip connector to hold the small CAT5 brush contacts, just a handy way to mount them solidly.
I also added a kill switch to the circut so that it can be disabled during the first half of the night or during the day. The other strip connector is the output. It is assembled on a base made of 16mm fiber board, no particular reason other than I needed something to stick everything to and that scrap was sitting there.
The moving contact on the hand is another copper strand form the CAT5. Held it in some tweezers, dipped the ends in glue and stuck it on the hand - real high tech
All thats connected at the moment is a single normal red LED for testing purposes. Still waiting on the flashing LEDs. I will experiment with just placing them near my sleeping position first.
Don't want to try the whole dream mask thing unless it's not working this way. But it is no porblem to adapt this design to use a mask of some sort if needs be.

You will need:
Just so happens that Jaycar stcok 5mm high brightness red LEDs that flash independant of other components.
http://www.jaycar.co.nz/
Search for part No. ZD1785
Analog clocks ? whatever you can find cheap. All it has to have is a minute hand that goes around roughly once every hour.
9v battery, couple of strip connectors, hookup wire, glue ect.
For brush and hand contacts I used strands from MM cables "MEGATWISTLAN" CTA5
Any solid core ~24awg wire would probably do.


Can't get full sized pic to display coz I'm stoopid
its here:
http://forums.nzicemag.co.nz/download.php?id=1346