While this was all great experience for a student engineer, it makes the project a little hard to understand for new programmers.
#Digital clock 3d code#
This makes the code difficult to understand. The limited memory caused me to have to create some odd workarounds. This small Arduino MCU is too limited to comfortably run 170 LEDs. Personally, I am happy I managed to fit everything in this small space but if you wanted a simpler build, I would try think of a new solution.Īs a result of such a small electronics enclosure, I used an Attiny85. As is, the electronics fit between the two dots, this looks great, but it is a very tight space. If I were building this again, and wanted to simplify the build, I would try find another place to enclose the electronics. With 6 LEDs per segment, the brightness can sit at no more than 50% and be visible on a bright sunny day.įirstly, while the overall physical build was amazing, the electronics area was fairly small. The LEDs are also more than bright enough.
The diffusion is almost perfect with very minimal hotspots. The resulting surface finish and build looks great.Īnother positive for the design was the LEDs and diffusion. These segments were then assembled to make the clock. Each segment was sanded, filler primed, primed, painted, and clear coated. The clock is made of individual segments that have addressable LEDs inside.
What went well? The overall physical design of the clock turned out great. I will attempt to share what went well and what can be improved so that you might be able to benefit from my mistakes and possibly build your own clock. The response was quite positive, and I ended up being asked to share more. Once completing the project, I decided I would still share the result on reddit just do show what I had achieved. Because of this I gave up on sharing the project in a how-to format. As I progressed, I realised that my project was not going to be as simple as I planned. I had planned to document the project really well and then share the project so that others could replicate my project very simply. At the time I wanted a project that would be fun, useful for gaining engineering experience (I am an engineering student), something for a resume and something I could share with others. Just drop us a line at We are looking forward to hearing from you.Ok I want to be 100% honest with my project. You can email us whenever you have questions or feedback for us, your improvements suggestions are also always welcome. We are really glad that you like our product! Your support and voice are very important to us. Perhaps this would not match the design of the clock, but it would be much less stressful to listen to during the day. A better option would be to offer more relaxing sound effect options found in their Koi Pond app. I ended up turning the sound off as I have enough stress int he office. Nothing special but somewhat hard to listen to at lenght. The only complaint I would offer is that sound effects are just OK. Good price although it would have been a nice touch to offer an "all-in" price discount if you purchase all of the clocks.
I looked at 10 or so top rated clocks and this one was my favorite.
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