web app landing page
List of all alarms
Edit your alarm
about Timeless and use case
our tech
Arduino schematic
future considerations
mood board for inspiration
credits

Timeless

Keep your phone out of the bedroom and sleep better with Timeless, the alarm clock that will wake you up without displaying the time on the clock. Timeless syncs with the Timeless API to ring to the alarms you set, keeping track of when to ring on it's own. This helps keep devices away from bed to maintain sleep hygiene and manage sleep insomnia. Set your Timeless alarms on your phone or computer, tuck them away, sleep and wake up soundly.

Inspiration

We were inspired by:

IoT and hardware building and programming
sleep hygiene-conscious alarm systems
Arduino alarm clock hacks
music and radio alarm clocks
full-stack solutions

How we built it

Hardware:

Arduino ESP32
3D model to print a case for hardware
Speakers, mp3 module, volume dial Software:
Hardware: Arduino IDE, C++
Backend: Fastify, Docker, Postgresql
Frontend: React web app, evergreen-ui
Design: Figma

Challenges we ran into

revisting C++ sytax in a hardware context
poor hardware documentation, frying some spare components
working on a disentegrating computer system

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Developed a functional front-end and back-end
Designed hi-fi mockups and presentation slides
Functioning hardware server with API endpoints

What we learned

Arduino can be editted in an external editor with a simple change to IDE settings
how to write servers on hardware
using a design system to quickly iterate wireframes
using a hash router
researching arduino libraries to help build functionality

What's next for Timeless

completing core functionality:
- backend sends requests to hardware
- data from hardware server results in triggered alarms
- triggered alarms results in sound playing
Fade-in alarm sound
Labels / Name
link audio to Youtube, Spotify, Internet Radio
Motivational Activity (ie. shoot out a ping pong ball that user needs to put back to stop the alarm)

Built With

Submitted to

CatHacks VII
- Winner Best Hardware Hack

Created by

I worked on the hardware, choosing components, soldering them for the breadboard, and wiring them together. I also created a basic case model for the finished product

Cameron Jupp
I worked on the hardware server logic and alarm class structure, and provided support for each project component when needed

Chantal Snazel
I worked on the web dev elements - So built the server with a postgres container running with docker, wrote migrations to set up the database and built out API routes to pass data between the UI and the hardware. I also built the UI with React with Fetch to pull data from the server. To match the designs, I used Evergreen-UI and Styled-Components with React-Router's hash link package for scrolling.

Meghan Hein
I worked on the designs for the visual language, UI Design and base the above on the React Evergreen component library. After the designs were fleshed out, I provided CSS to the developers.

Alice Zhang

Updates

Chantal Snazel started this project — Apr 18, 2021 10:24 AM EDT

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