The light alarm clock project is a fantastic way to get started with the Raspberry Pi Pico. The project involves setting up a timer that counts down from 7.7 hours (or 27720 seconds).

[Markus] turn his breadboard LED matrix tinkering into an alarm clock which wakes him each morning. Don’t be fooled by how clean his assembly work is. That’s not a fabbed PCB, it’… ...

[CoreWeaver] creates an alarm clock that includes features one might expect in such a project, including an FM radio, snooze button inputs and a display, but goes beyond the basic functionality to ...

That hasn’t stopped companies from trying to reinvent the alarm clock for the connected era, and Circa, a new Kickstarter project from Circa Labs, seems like one of the nicer attempts at the idea.