Clock alarm with music

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Hello guys,

I am posting my first topic in order to have some answers. I did some arduino in class (switching on and off leds, buttons, IR sensors). And now I would like to make a clock which plays music as an alarm.

The thing is I'm a beginner and I saw a lot of tutorials but still don't know which one would fit the best.
I listed those :

  • Arduino Uno
  • Battery
  • RTC ds3231
  • Speakers

Do you think I might need anything else ?

Thank you have a nice day

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MikeTile:
Hello guys,

I am posting my first topic in order to have some answers. I did some arduino in class (switching on and off leds, buttons, IR sensors). And now I would like to make a clock which plays music as an alarm.

The thing is I'm a beginner and I saw a lot of tutorials but still don't know which one would fit the best.
I listed those :

  • Arduino Uno
  • Battery
  • RTC ds3231
  • Speakers

Do you think I might need anything else ?

Thank you have a nice day

You might need something to store and replay the music and an amplifier to drive the speakers. Why "speakers" and not "speaker"?

Why are you using a battery? How many hours do you expect this to run before the battery dies?

Do you expect to start and stop the alarm?

Do you expect to manually change the alarm time, other than in writing a new program?

Do you expect to know the current time and the alarm set time, except through the program code?

Paul

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You mean an SD Card with the music on it ? Isn't there a way to store it on the arduino directly ? I mean I only need one music and should not be more than 4mb.

Yes one speaker is totally fine.

I want to use a battery to use it as a clock bed to use in the morning so it should not be connected to a computer to be powered.

No I expect to make the music running and stopping when it reaches the end only.

Yes that would be great to set the alarm manually

And finally I do not need to see the time on it but if I can do it with my little skills why not :slight_smile: I'm willing to learn.

Have a nice day

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Delta_G:
4mb? Do you know how much memory an Arduino has? Even if you add up the program memory, ram, eeprom, and every type of memory on that board together it would still only be kilobytes.

The Arduino is woefully incapable of anything but the crudest of audio. If you want actual music then you need a module like dfplayer that can play mp3 or wav files.

Alright, I did not know that haha I thought it could handle at least 50mb