Snooze/turn off with the press of a button.

Schedule the song to play on specific days & times.

The alarm clock needs to do three things to be fully operational: The REXQualis Complete Starter Kit is my top recommendation, but any of them will work. The speaker you can get anywhere, but for the other components, I recommend getting an electronics starter kit. In addition to your Raspberry Pi, you’ll need a handful of electronics components: If you come up with a cool variation, make sure to share your notes and a photo in the comments below! What you’ll need I might update this project in the future with these additions, but for now, here’s how to create the prototype for a custom Raspberry Pi alarm clock.

I’ll be wrapping up the project with a breadboard still in use at the end, but you could take things further by soldering the components together, 3D printing a case, or even adding a clock with a 4-digit LED. That means you’ll have a song scheduled to play every morning and a button you can click to snooze or press-and-hold to turn off. This project is going to focus on the functionality of the alarm clock. The possibilities are endless with a Raspberry Pi powered alarm clock. You can customize the snooze duration, increase the volume every 2 minutes, change the tune to a more urgent song after a few snoozes, or even play a recording of yourself saying to “get out of bed already!” If you have trouble getting yourself out of bed in the morning, this gives you a sandbox to try out different things and see what works for you. Schedule it to auto-dismiss after some time.For example, with this alarm clock you can:

The Raspberry Pi can function much better as an alarm clock than your phone. If you’re new to the Pi, you may want to go over my GPIO pin introduction and breadboard tutorial first to familiarize yourself with these tools. Using the steps outlined in this Raspberry Pi project, you’ll create your own alarm clock that can play any song you want and can be turned off or snoozed using a physical button. How many times have you heard that same awful ringtone and then turned it off accidentally when you meant to hit snooze?

Alarm clock app with music