I built my daughter a custom alarm clock because everything on Amazon sucked

There are a dozen clocks that show up on Amazon with all the desired features from the AI-written blogspam post.

https://www.pangram.com/history/bb207b47-52d0-41fe-bb60-e135...

Don't waste your time.

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.

Obligatory, related from Ben Eater https://youtu.be/3XDH-fZKnQk

"Let's build a digital clock", part 1, Aug 2026

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