Capacitor alarm clock you cannot snooze

An alarm clock whose only off switch is physically inserting a component into a socket. Build the control logic and a faithful simulator; the shock is optional and yours to skip.

Requirements

Set, edit and cancel alarms from a small web UI served by the device

When an alarm fires, the only way to stop it is a "proof of wakefulness" action you design — a physical insertion, a typed sequence, a held button for 30 seconds

The alarm escalates: quiet, loud, louder, with the escalation curve configurable

A simulator that runs the same state machine in the browser with a fake clock you can scrub

Alarms survive a power cycle

Bonus Points

Sunrise-simulating LED ramp in the ten minutes before the alarm

esp32state-machinewebfun

Free stage

JuniorFree

Starter repo

You connect the GoShip MCP server to Claude Code or Cursor. It records your prompts, tool calls and test runs, and that record is what gets scored.

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