Capacitor Alarm Clock
I made an alarm clock that blows up capacitors to wake you up. There are more details on the Github repo but it's made from an esp32-c3 as the microcontroller, with 3 capacitor slots. There are relays on each capacitor slot to put 15v reverse voltage on the capacitor, with 5.1 ohm resistors on each slot for current limiting in case the capacitor shorts out. I also chucked in an SSD1315 OLED to show the time and a menu to configure it, although there's a web UI as well. The esp32 also means you can fetch the time from NTP. It also functions as a small heater since I used LDOs to step down 15v…
In plain words
Capacitor Alarm Clock is an alarm device built around an ESP32-C3 microcontroller that wakes users by deliberately destroying capacitors with reversed 15V voltage. It features three capacitor slots with relay controls and current-limiting resistors, an OLED display for time and configuration menus, a web-based interface, and NTP time synchronization. The device also generates heat as a side effect of its power conversion design.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
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I made an alarm clock that blows up capacitors to wake you up. There are more details on the Github repo but it's made from an esp32-c3 as the microcontroller, with 3 capacitor slots. There are relays on each capacitor slot to put 15v reverse voltage on the capacitor, with 5.1 ohm resistors on each slot for current limiting in case the capacitor shorts out. I also chucked in an SSD1315 OLED to show the time and a menu to configure it, although there's a web UI as well. The esp32 also means you can fetch the time from NTP. It also functions as a small heater since I used LDOs to step down 15v to 3.3v for the esp32, I was lazy and didn't use a buck converter circuit :)
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