My Homemade Musical Sunrise Alarm Clock

[svorkoetter]

This is my first post in the Clock Corner, and horologically speaking, this is probably not a very interesting clock (the movement is quartz), but since I'm a WRT member, and since many of you probably have multiple hobbies too, I thought I'd share this here.

 

This project combines several of my hobbies, namely electronics, music, woodworking, horology, and getting up in the morning. It's basically a quartz alarm clock, but it has several novel features:

• simulated sunrise using orange and white LEDs
• a random "music" generator, built entirely using analog circuitry
• uninterruptable power supply, remaining fully functional (up to 20 hours) during an outage
• very bright and long lasting lume, using techniques I've developed for my watch projects

Building a Musical Sunrise Quartz Alarm Clock

 

 

At the end of the article, there's a video showing the alarm sequence.

[Geo]

Another great job Stephan. The only change I would make is illumination of the clock face, other than lume, to let my old eyes see what time it is.

[rogart63]

Want one .Not that i have trouble getting up in the morning? but i hate my old LCD screen . This is so much nicer to lock at? Want one upside down so i could hang it under the shelf . Where can i order ;) 

[oldhippy]

How nice to be able to do such a thing. I do like the style of the case.

[frenchie]

Cool ! Yes, I did watch the whole video :)

Thanks for posting all the details !

[Peixian]

thanks your post, that is a special watch, but the appearance is not my dish.

 I have  watched the whole video 

[clockboy]

How strange but nice