Not a morning person? Try this automated dorm room. Curtains open, eggs boil, and bread is toasted, all automatically. The motor mounts and gearing for the curtains are machined and laser cut.
So here was my approach; Use a motor to pull the curtains and use a remote set to control the kettle and oven. For controlling all these thing one time, I had to use some kind of alarm which would go just before my normal alarm clock rings. So I bought a cheap little clock on ebay with alarm function and battery powered. Then I designed a circuit to control the remote boxes wireless and a motor controller due a simple mosfet. Here’s the circuit I came up with.

reminds me of the breakfast machine in chitty chitty bang bang….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D1ZCvmVsFY&t=1m24s