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A clock that displays the time in any arbitrary base

gorlothGorloth 11/11/2018 at 05:510 Comments

So after spending way more time sitting unfinished on my workbench I made some more progress towards actually finishing things. The code has been updated (and pushed to Github) which allows for options of showing/hiding the display of seconds as well as a setting to force overlap of the hours and minutes digits anytime it's possible as opposed to the previous behavior which only overlapped when there wasn't enough room to display them separately. I also did some code cleanup to do a better job of processing the encoder turns when dealing with partial turns and to account for switching the encoders and knob from active low to active high.

I also made some progress on the frame with the aid of a friend with some wood working equipment (pictured below). The top and bottom pieces have a channel cut into them to hold the segments in place. The current plan is to make a front plate to cover the control board. The sections are going to be connected via screws to allow for access to the control board for future upgrades/repair to the circuitry. The edged will probably get rounded off and the wood will be finished with a stain of some sort.

Things still left to be done:

  1. Finish frame
  2. More code tweaks
    1. Add option to display current base
    2. Utilize LEDs in knob (requires some HW cleanup/debugging)
    3. Possible add option for date info
  3. Draw up schematic of control board

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