I’m looking for a radio alarm clock project that I could do with a Raspberry Pi or a NodeMCU (ESP32/ESP8266), a small LCD screen and a small speaker.

Do you have any ideas? Does it exist? If not, how should I approach the project? Any advice on speakers for the Raspberry Pi?

  • death916@lemmy.death916.xyz
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    1 year ago

    I was actually working on this myself. Had a 3d printed case a touch screen I bought and started writing code for it. But life got in the way.

    I had a buzzard from a pi parts kit that I was gonna add to the pins probably for when alarm goes off. and was looking for a good radio module. Was also thinking about just having it play a song from YouTube or something randomly instead.

    Not much here but. https://github.com/Death916/deathclock/tree/deargui

    I’ve been planning on going back to this but haven’t had time yet.

  • M-Reimer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Depends on your needs. My solution to this problem was buying a cheap DAB+ radio, hooking it up to an amplifier that I pulled out of a dumpster a while ago and drive two bookshelf speakers with that. All this is hooked up to a simple timer switch. Great sound and can go freaking loud.

    • thisn@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      You could go a step further and use a wifi switch, with that you could change the “alarm times” and for how long it should stay on right from your phone.

      Shelly does have some nice options for wifi relay switches

      • Markaos@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        It’s probably also worth noting that pretty much all of these WiFi switches rely on their manufacturer’s servers to keep working. If that company goes belly up or simply decides it no longer wants to pay to keep these devices functional, the switch becomes a paperweight.