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#off#alarm#spotify#https#daughter#listen#night#screen#unless#school

Discussion (5 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

pneedleman•about 3 hours ago
My daughter had an iPad and would listen to it at night. Eyes glued to a screen at bedtime drove my wife and me crazy. It would also just keep playing indefinitely unless I remembered to go in and turn it off, along with having to manually manage her Yoto alarm on holidays and school breaks. We wanted her to be more independent and listen to music WITHOUT a tablet in bed.

I ended up building my own because I couldn't find anything on the market without microphones that also had a Spotify controller. This has been going strong in her room for ~1 month now. Features include, alarm sync'd with her school district days off, weather (and alerts), Spotify, Hue, Sleep timer, parent dashboard, and much more.

raylad•about 2 hours ago
Looks cool but you may want to rethink the blue LED for an alarm clock, because blue light interferes with sleep.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/healthy-aging-and-longevity/b...

pneedleman•about 1 hour ago
100% - the screen automatically turns off at night based on Sunset time, and turns back on at sunrise (unless alarm goes off before).

You can also get a classic green or color display with negative display and use custom backlight colors (https://www.adafruit.com/product/399)

bdangubic•about 3 hours ago
fantastic. i would easily pay $150 for a product like this
pneedleman•about 3 hours ago
wow, means a ton. my daughter has actually been insisting that I sell them and had to get her approval to open-source the code this week.

Code and materials are on my github: https://github.com/pneedleman/reclaim-spotify-clock The off-the-shelf hardware runs around $60.

If enough folks would rather have a pre-assembled plug-and-play kit instead of soldering it themselves, I might seriously look into doing a small-batch run or Kickstarter.