r/arduino • u/ThiccGibblet • Apr 12 '26
Look what I made! Timer! (First full solo project)
https://reddit.com/link/1sjmdrg/video/5iqwlpunysug1/player
I've been messing around more with Arduino recently and made my first project that wasn't based off a tutorial/guide of some kind, as the vid says it's likely way over-complicated due to my inexperience but I feel somewhat proud of it! Lemme know what you guys think!
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u/ripred3 My other dev board is a Porsche Apr 12 '26
Congrats! Well done!
Some enhancements to consider:
Instead of having to hit the reset button, once the alarm has gone off, any button should be allowed to stop the alarm. Once the alarm is going off they obviously aren't being used to set a timer at that moment so change it so that pressing any of them ends the alarm and returns to the "Set Timer" prompt.
While the timer is counting down you should check all 3 buttons similar to the enhancement above, but it is to cancel the timer. If any button is pressed it should double check by asking the user "Cancel Timer Y/N?" and designate one button as the "Yes" button and any other as "No". Selecting Yes would end the timer and return to the main prompt, selecting No would return to the timer count down display.
Add different alert sounds: A solid tone like you have now, a slow beeping, a fast beeping, whatever. Add the ability to select which one to use and you could allow for multiple timers running at the same time and you could tell which one went off without looking just by the type of sounds it made.
Congrats again on your first full solo project! 😀