Wake up with ease! (DIY artificial sunrise)

To combat morning grumpiness, we made an artificial sunrise lamp to slowly prepare my body for waking up. We salvaged an old LCD screen from the trash and reused the backlight elements to form a large distributed surface area capable of spreading light evenly throughout my room.

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The concept of reusing LCD backlight sections for light diffusion has been done by DIY Perks in several of their videos, check them out if you're curious:
How to make a relaxing “fake window” light panel (using old laptop screens):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vY2KK4YiOO1o
Transforming Broken TVs into Realistic Artificial Daylight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v8JrqH2oOTK4
DIY Studio Lights – How to Build Your Own! :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vDhbMnQt14_o
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Open Source Files and Project Details:

Code and CAD:
Github repository: https://github.com/appliedprocrastination/Zom-B-Gone/
Technical writing: https://hackaday.io/project/181674-zom-b-gone

Third party:
Arduino Nano: https://store.arduino.cc/products/arduino-nano
Adafruit DS3231 RTC: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3013

Rotary Encoder Module (Affiliate): https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_9w0vKg
Push button with LED (affiliate): https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_A8eoKG

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Credits:

Intro/theme song:
-Nicklas Myhre: https://www.instagram.com/myhre.nicklas/

Music:
– Dreams from Bensound.com
– Patience of Dyalla
-Jukebox by Patrick Patrikios
– Homer said by Dyalla
– I Feel Like Partying Right Now by Nat Keefe & BeatMower

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