The primary goal of this project is to design a more functional alarm clock app that forces the user to perform a randomized action to turn off the alarm, making the wake-up more effective and reducing the odds of the user getting accustomed to the process.

By utilizing existing technologies such as Near Field Communication (NFC), or a QR code, in conjunction with the ubiquity of smartphones, this project can create a universally accessible solution for the problem.

As students with questionable sleeping habits, there have been a non-insignificant number of times where one of us or someone we know has shut off their alarm in a half-awake fugue state and immediately went back to sleep. This can lead to anything from missing a class to sleeping through a major interview. We want to help increase the effectiveness of our phone's alarm in a way that forces people to fully wake up.

By using this app we expect people to wake up consistently  under any condition. 

Since most of our project will be done in software, we expect to use around 25-50 dollars for prototyping. This will go towards components for hardware-based solutions, such as NFC tags and 3D printer filament.