Now that is very high in the cool factor! This has been an interesting thread and got me to thinking about building something similar for myself.
A quick search for Arduino and LED or LCD Clock returned many hits and lots of interesting ideas for rolling my own. For those not acquainted Arduino it is a simple development/learning platform based on an Atmel chip which has become very popular for hacking and playing around with. So popular in fact that you can now get PIC and a 75 MHz ARM based Arduino like compatible boards - same form factor and common IDE. You could for example take an Arduino board, plug on a LCD display shield, add a simple "sketch" (aka program) and have a functional clock, - add some software to sync to a gps 1 pps (etc, etc). The plug on boards with different functionalities are called shields and you can get pretty much whatever you would like - Ethernet, wireless, Bluetooth, etc. Do a quick general Google search or have a look on eBay; you might be surprised. Cheers, Graham ve3gtc -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp Sent: June 8, 2011 15:11 To: Flemming Larsen; Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] locate 6 digit digital clock In message <985823.67392...@web24819.mail.ird.yahoo.com>, Flemming Larsen write s: I recently turned a HP frequency counter into a style-fitting clock for our workshop in Danish Computer History Association: http://ing.dk/artikel/119043-ur-til-tiden (Google translate does a decent job) I used a PIC18mumble and a DS3231 RTC. Since the RTC also tracks day-month-year, it was trivial to let it run in UTC and program the pic18 to figure out timezone + DST. Even if you use a uP to count time, it would make good sense to include a RTC so you don't have to reset the clock after each power-glitch. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
