Arduino Based Wake-Up Light project

Author: Jeroen 
X-project

Hi all,

I've decided to make a Wake-Up light, because I hate it when my old alarm clock wakens me with that annoying buzzer. This Wake-Up light gradually increases the light, to simulate a rising sun.

This will help me to get out of bed with a better mood. :-)

Here are the main features of my Wake-Up light:

• A normal alarm (as you can find in any alarm)
• A repeating alarm, which you can set for every day of the week separately.
• Fade-out: to decrease the light gradually and fall asleep
• It can function as a night lamp
• Various settings, such as maximum light intensity, wake up durarion, ...

So here's a description on how to build it.

First, you'll need to get all the parts:

• Arduino (Uno)
• 12 ultra bright leds
• 12 resistors: 300 ohms
• NPN transistor (I used TIP-120)
• 7 push buttons
• 8 resistors (10 k)
• LCD Screen Module
• A buzzer
• Some male headers, so you could easily plug everything into the Arduino

To make it easy to attach or remove the leds with the rest of the circuit, I soldered a plug on the wires for the leds.
This is handy when you want to put everything in a housing at the end:

Once everything is soldered together, and the program is uploaded to the Arduino, it is time to create a proper housing:
(I first drew a draft in SketchUp, you can download it too here)

And here is the final result.

Note: The LCD says "Maandag", which means "Monday" in my language, but in the source code attached, all text strings are translated to English.

In the rules for the X-Project, it is mentioned to take picture from your User ID, together with the project, so here it is.

I think I've posted all the information and documentation I got.
If there are any questions, remarks or suggestions, please let me know in the comments!

And if you like my project, please vote! :-)