Quantity   Component name
1 × RGB strip from IKEA 4 solid bars connected together in one long strip. can be rotated
1 × small glockenspiel with a small crank for manual mode. plays "das klinget so herrlich" from Mozart's Magic Flute.
1 × standard RC-style Servo to rotate the light
1 × Seeeduino v2.21 Arduino clone with atmega168
1 × PS/2-Mouse with three buttons and Mousewheel the middleclickwheel is just perfect as a RGB-controller
1 × old Motor from an ink jet printer to drive the glockenspiel
1 × MOSFET to drive the motor
1 × batch of "Märklin Metall" Meccano style erector set parts to build a frame
1 × cardboard box which originally contained very delicous Lebkuchen instead of this project.
1 × WLAN router with cron deamon and broken out serial port (i think every router has one for debugging). Setting of the alarm via telnetting into it and configuring the crontab.