Combat SAD -- Use BlinkyTape for Sunrise alarm clock?

JohnD

I've been looking for a reasonably priced sunrise alarm clock...they don't exist, and the overpriced ones that do seem to be white-light only.

How cool to have a BlinkyStrip behind the headboard that can glow deep blue, and slowly brighten through orange hues and then brighter yellow? control the duration of "sunrise" with an input parameter.

So I have this idea, but where would I start? could an arduino program be triggered from a commercial alarm clock?

Patrick

I've done this. I triggered it with a standard household timer, like the kind used to control christmas lights. plug the timer into the wall, plug a USB converter into that, and plug your blinky strip into that.

Threeethan

Patrick's idea is definitely the simplest one, but you could also do some more complicated sunrise patterns if you have the strip connected to a computer or a Raspberry Pi. It should be relatively simple to do this with any of the languages that there are examples for...