An idea just came to me upon waking, and I wanted to get it down before I went back to sleep so that I didn’t forget.<\/p>\n
I have sleep apnea, and I sleep with an APAP machine (keeps my airway inflated so that it doesn’t collapse.)<\/p>\n
All too often, I find that I have knocked the air hose loose from the machine in my sleep. That, or removed the mask without realizing it.<\/p>\n
The machine has an alarm on it to alert you to large air leaks (like those above) but it is way, way too quiet to wake me up.<\/p>\n
So what I need to do is have a computer (or better yet, one of my PDAs) listen for that tone and amplify\/supplement it. Come to think of it, one of the embedded systems would be better as I could clean off all of the other software and have that be its only<\/span> job. I’ve found computers to be unreliable alarm clocks, and I wouldn’t want to rely on them for this, either.<\/p>\n I’ll flesh out the entry later. For now, back to sleep.<\/p>\n