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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : Some New Clock Programs
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| William Leue Guru  Joined: 03/07/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 393 |
In the past, I have published several clock programs, including GrandfatherClock, BCDClock, SpinClock, and others. Here are 3 additional CMM2 clock programs for your amusement or ignoring  .GridClock was inspired by the kinetic art piece "Humans Since 1982: A Million Times 120" by Kevin Gittemeier. The clock consists of 120 small clocks layed out in a 15x8 grid. The hands of all these small clocks rotate to various positions to create graphic patterns, and once a minute, the 24-hour time.   GridClock.zip The other two clocks are less fancy. WordClock gives the date, time, and day of the week in large text. It incorporates a perpetual calendar to compute the day of the week. DigitalClock shows the time in large simulated 7-segment displays. WordClock.zip DigitalClock.zip Edited 2023-10-18 08:24 by William Leue |
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Plasmamac Guru Joined: 31/01/2019 Location: GermanyPosts: 554 |
I love 🕰 Plasma |
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NPHighview Senior Member  Joined: 02/09/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 200 |
William: I absolutely love that style of clock display, and I will scrutinize your code to see how you accomplished it :-) If you're using a PicoW, you may like this code: https://github.com/sfjohnso/PicoW/blob/main/AnalogClock.bas This uses the Waveshare Pico-Eval-Board but could easily be adapted for other displays by modifying the CONST values at the beginning. It uses the P-E-B's on-board "clicker" to quietly, but audibly, tick every second. This clicker isn't on any other Waveshare board that I've found. You need to set up access to your WiFi via OPTION command, and set the display to Portrait (I use Portrait-Reversed to make the USB cable come out close to the desktop). In the code, you may need to hard-code the time-zone offset from Universal Coordinated Time (it's currently set to work for me near Los Angeles). If it doesn't find your access point or an NTP server (to begin with, and once per hour), it'll use locally-set (i.e. via command line) time and date, and indicate (using a stick figure) that time is manual. If it's successful in picking up NTP, then it displays a "computer" figure. The clock face is my crude attempt to emulate Swiss railroad clocks, but show a "ticking" second hand instead of a sweep second hand. You can change hand lengths and colors by modifying the CONST values. Edited 2023-10-19 03:38 by NPHighview Live in the Future. It's Just Starting Now! |
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| William Leue Guru Joined: 03/07/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 393 |
Thanks for the kind words, Plasmamac and NPHighview! -Bill |
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| NPHighview Senior Member Joined: 02/09/2020 Location: United StatesPosts: 200 |
Bill: Looking through the code - this for the CMM2, I see. Maybe I can manage to port it to Pico one a 480x320 display :-) Edited 2023-10-20 11:21 by NPHighview Live in the Future. It's Just Starting Now! |
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| Amnesie Guru Joined: 30/06/2020 Location: GermanyPosts: 396 |
Would be cool if this would run on the PicoVGA :) Really nice work! Greetings Daniel |
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| Bleep Guru Joined: 09/01/2022 Location: United KingdomPosts: 509 |
Here is a similar clock, for the pico, does use less clocks, there is also a VGA version. ClockClock24 Edited 2023-10-21 06:52 by Bleep |
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