Program a button to tell time

[Loli Pits]

sorry... i don't know if i posted in the right section... but i made one in the programming section and i don't know how to transfer so im just gonna post a link to the post...

 

[Hackentosher]

How much does it cost to ship the alarm clock? Could you find an alternative from somewhere else? In my experience, given the choice between buying something not ridiculously expensive and building one myself, I usually find that it's cheaper in the long run to just buy the damn thing especially if I don't know exactly how to build what I want. If you value your time at all, it becomes much more expensive to build it yourself because it's time you could have spent on something else.

 

That said, you could probably do it with an arduino and some circuitry, or a raspberry pi. I found these guides in a quick search, take a look. https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/raspberry-pi-based-jarvis-themed-speaking-alarm-clock 

https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/arduino-based-text-to-speech-converter#:~:text=Text-to-speech or TTS,text in a human voice

A benefit of the RPi solution is you have access to the internet and thus the correct time at all times.

[artuc]

Yeah I agree with @Hackentosher.

 

Some people are happy to play around, tweak, debug and have a bit of jankiness.

 

I usually have the skills, but just want something off the shelf that just works as I may not have time to fix it or deal with unreliability.

 

Not to say all retail products are perfect and don't have issues, just do you want to be constantly on call as tech support for something?

 

This is even more so with an aid for a medical condition.

 

Is there any local blind associations or groups ?

 

Not sure on the healthcare system there, any subsidies, grants or welfare towards medical equipment and devices ?

 

Like here in Australia you should be able to get some sort of funding and there are groups and associations that supply and arrange such equipment.

 

Eg. 

https://shop.visionaustralia.org/shop/in-department/departments/talking-clocks