zoobab on Tiny Machine Learning On As Little As 2 KB Of RAM.Edward Drummond on NASA Help Wanted: Ham Radio Operators Please Apply.Tom on Electromagnetic Mechanism Makes Reconfigurable Antenna.Al Williams on Linux Fu: Sharing Your Single WiFi.While this clock would certainly be too dangerous for a chronic snooze button abuser like myself, it’s an interesting concept nonetheless!Ĭheck out the video below to see the FlipClock in action.Ĭontinue reading “Flip Off Your Alarm Clock!” → Posted in clock hacks Tagged FlipClock, gps, propeller In fact, there are no buttons to set the alarm either – the clock is configured to sound the alarm at the same time each day.
That’s a good thing though, since there are no buttons with which to set the clock. Instead of using a real time clock IC, is using a GPS module to keep accurate time, something we don’t recall seeing in an alarm clock before. The clock is based around a Propeller chip, which manages all of the clock’s operations. The digits automatically right themselves using an accelerometer to detect when the clock has been turned upside down, and an indicator LED lets you know that the alarm has been turned off. When the alarm goes off, all one needs to do is flip the clock over to disable it. The FlipClock resides in a simple black plastic case lacking any buttons whatsoever. He was so annoyed with regular alarm clocks that he decided to build his own simpler timepiece. hates fumbling around in the dark with his alarm blaring, looking for the off switch. Posted in clock hacks Tagged 7 segment, ATMega 48, clock, cnc, flip, FlipClock Flip Off Your Alarm Clock! This is a complete log of a project we mentioned earlier on Hackaday, here, but there are other mechanical flip display clock projects, such as this DIY mechanical flip seven-segment prototype, or, you could create your own (really big) clock using this Lego mechanical seven-segment display.
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There are plenty of pictures and the circuit designs, schematics and code are on ’s Hackaday.io page, and you can find the Hackaday links post here. nailed the art-deco look he was going for. The result, after sanding and shellacing, looks amazing. The back plate, also made from wood, holds buttons for setting the time and alarm, as well as some LEDs for what calls the “daylight alarm.” A capacitive sensor on the top of the unit (inside the wooden case) is used to turn the alarm off. The wood (sapele and ash) were CNC cut and aligned. used a fifth digit, slightly offset, for those – the top and middle segments are used.įor the housing of the clock, used layers of offsetting colored wood. There are two parts of the clock face left to do: AM/PM and whether the alarm is set or not. The microcontroller in question is the AVR ATMega48. Similarly, the segments for each digit are connected together as well, so one pin on the micro controls the same segment on each of the digits. Each coil can be powered using a single pin on the microcontroller. To save on pins on the microcontroller, connected all the middle coil pins together on a digit. The middle one is power and the other two are used to enable and disable the segment – ie., flip it one way or the other. On these digits, there are three connections on the coils.
Current in the other direction creates the opposite magnetic field and flips the segment the other way. These digits work the same way that flip-dot displays work – current through each segment’s coil creates a magnetic field which causes the segment to flip over. Vintage seven segment digits make up the display. Well, it’s finally finished, and it looks great! Earlier this year, we mentioned in a Hackaday Links article that was in the process of building a seven-segment flip clock.
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