Cookie JAR clock of passion

I added a special firmware that will display the message "Goodbye 2020" among the other messages that were mentioned above. 

   I hate to break it to you, but for me, personally, 2020 was not such a bad year. So this is the reason for why this message fits well among the other messages in my clock. Since I'm living in a 3rd world country, 2020 didn't bring any major negative change. This country I'm living in at the moment didn't experience any economic crisis yet and we hardly had any viral spread. Everything stood the same around here.

   It has been a good year for me. I experienced many personal achievements, I won international contests, my youtube channel got monetized, my kids learned to ride the bike and we took a cat. I was able to spend dozens of hours building and flying model planes with my son and I feel we had some priceless quality time together. Me and my wife turned 10 years of marriage and we both feel like we recently took our relationship to a higher level of trust, friendship and intimacy. We feel like our career paths are going in the right direction and we experience a feeling of complete satisfaction as we continue to serve with these aid organizations we involve with. We managed to invest so much into educational projects for the children of the 3rd world communities and we feel blessed in everything because we focused on giving and not on receiving. 

   Before everybody in the western world dislikes my post and starts trolling me, I want everybody to know that I am only posting this comment in order to encourage you all. There is life after the pandemic. Have faith and let us all hope for a better 2021. There is a full half of the glass there somewhere and we can all find it. Be kind to one another, show love and compassion and have faith in God.

Greetings from PNG. 

I did drill a hole into the glass for my last similar project. I sealed it up with transparent silicone and I was very happy that it didn't leak. At least this is what I thought at the moment. Several months later I noticed that the power brick that I had under the desk was all greasy and it was having an oily aspect. When I was putting my hand on it I could feel my fingers oily afterwards. I realized that the oil was very slowly leaking through the core of the threaded wire from the jar into the power brick below. 

I added the files for the springy supports that hold the PCB in place inside the jar. 

You have to clip them into the mounting holes of the PCB and then insert the PCB inside the jar. The tails of these clips are flexible (I used PLA plastic) and they will act like some springs in order to keep everything in place. 

Like I said in the beginning, the clock displays these 7 messages:

- You are my sugar cookie
- You are my honeybun
- Sweeter than honey
- To the moon and back
- To my beloved sweetheart
- Dearest of all
- I love you deeply

And they look like this:

You can also modify these messages in software and make them customized to your desire. Download the firmware and modify the texts at the top side of the code. 

   At this point, the messages come in order and they have no randomization algorithm. Each new hour, the next message in the list will play and it will do this continuously regardless the day of the week or month. 

I added the firmware into the Files section. Use the MSP430 launchpad like seen in the image:

The green wire is TEST and the yellow one is RST. 

The programming header is a 4 pin DIP connector with the following order:

---- red ----

-- green---

-- yellow -

-- black --

Connect the black (GND) to the square pad hole on the board. The red wire usually stays disconnected from the launchpad. In this case, the clock needs the external power to be connected to it during programming and debugging.