Talking Lunch Clock
An invention idea by Lorraine at Ocean Arts supporting people with learning disabilities, made real by maker Alistair MacDondald.
“When I met Lorraine it was clear she had three passions in her life. Those are the colour pink, owls, and lunch. She has an amazing lunch bag that combines all three.
What Lorraine invented with help from her carers was a clock that looked just like her lunch bag that said “tweet tweet” when it was time for lunch. It was important to her that it did not go “tweet twoo”, it had to go “tweet tweet”.
The main body of the clock is laser cut from pink acrylic with coloured vinyl to add the face and eyes. The system is controlled by an Arduino compatible microcontroller, a real time clock module, and a sound sampler module that plays out the “tweet tweet”, or any other sound we choose to record.“ Alistair MacDonald