Pop-UP Clock… now in colour!
The Pop-Up Clock described in a recent post “Pop-Up Clock and Flipper Clock – Magnetic Digit Elements” is a work-in-progress proof of concept as I develop a full 4-digit clock (complete with flashing colon). So far, the design displays the time on this single digit display in a sequential manner: two digits for the hour, then a dash (“-“) followed by two digits for the minutes. Wishing to increase the illumination of the display and the contrast of the segments…
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TIME LOOP: Software issues and resolution
The TIME LOOP Clock is a small wall hanging clock that not only displays the time accurately, but also provides local times for the rise and setting of both the sun and moon. Good looking and functional too (just like its creator, ahem!) However, after making several to give as gifts, I noticed a couple of strange problems – an occasional and random flickering of the LED ring, and what appeared to be incorrect real-time clock adjustments arising from erroneous…
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TIME LOOP Clock: accuracy with celestial connections
Introducing the TIME LOOP Clock Accurate local time with celestial connections The TIME LOOP Clock provides automatic to-the-second time accuracy with a dynamic display that adjusts hues and brightness based on the real-time position of both the sun and moon. The TIME LOOP Clock is a 182mm (7.2″) diameter wall-mounted clock that sports a ring of LEDs used to tell the time. Based on conventional analogue clock faces, hours are displayed as single fixed points of light, minutes fill or…
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Simply put, the Elemental Clock uses three fundamental shapes – the square, triangle and circle – to display the current time in hours, minutes and seconds. The design breaks apart the displayed elements of the common clock face, and repackages the “hands” into separate, distinct, and yet connected, representations of the measurement of time.
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Time Flows: time at its most fluid
"Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way." ….. Yasunari Kawabata, from the novel Beauty and Sadness (Utsukushisa to kanashimi to), 1964…
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The MORSE CODE Clock is a simple side project inspired by a casual comment from Trevor, my brother-in-law, after the initial posting of the Time On Your Hands Clock. He asked that now I am working on a clock for the deaf, what about something to assist the blind? Well, I have already built the Speaking Clock, so how about something else… So here it is… The MORSE CODE Clock. So at what time did I take the video? The…
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LIFETIME Clock: The Game of Life with a new seed!
Introducing the LIFETIME Clock… A clock that not only keeps precise time, but seeds and plays the Conway’s Game of Life with the current time. For the LIFETIME Clock, TIME becomes the seed for LIFE. Profound, huh!
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WEATHERMAN – ESP8266 on a 2.4″ Colour LCD
The WEATHERMAN Web Weather Station project has taken on many guises as it has evolved through different hardware configurations. My latest is built on the ESP8266 WeMos D1 Mini board and uses my recent eBay delivered 2.4″ True Color TFT LCD 320×240 Display Module. Similar to other small OLED displays, this display runs on 3.3V and supports an I2C interface which makes it an ideal companion to the web-capable ESP8266. And what’s more, it ships from within Canada!
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NetClock: NTP Synchronized OLED Clock: Update
The NetClock NTP Synchronized OLED Clock is a quick and simple project to exercise your WeMos D1 R2 ESP8266 board and get a super-accurate clock as well! See update below for automatic WiFi connection handling!
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Weatherman: Port to WeMos D1 R2 ESP8266 board
The WEATHERMAN: Web Weather Forecaster original project was built using an Arduino UNO and an Ethernet shield to connect to the web to obtain the forecasted weather information. The need for an Ethernet connection was a severe limitation and the small amount of data RAM of the UNO meant that only three days worth of weather data could be processed…. Bummer! However, my new WeMos D1 R2 WiFi ESP8266 Development Board has oodles of memory so the Weatherman project was…
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