SeanNerd
"Dejah View" - Event count-down / count-up timer
My daughter Dejah was keeping track of how many days it would be until she was 18. She was using pieces of paper taped to the wall, and hash marks. So, for Christmas, I thought I'd make a count-down timer for her that was digital. While making the prototype, I thought "Why just one date?", so I made it handle a bunch of dates. I also made it capable of displaying different time units - so you can see seconds, hours, days, weeks, months and years until or since an event.
I 'm planning to make the project into something more complete - and perhaps, embed the parts into a mirror frame - but for now, prototype #2 is working, so I thought I'd document that. Prototype #1 was on an arduino, and used two breadboards and a lot more jumpers. I think I'm nearly ready to migrate prototype #2's components into their final form.
The big parts of the project are: a standard 16x2 LCD panel, an amtel atmega328, a ChronoDot, a Rotary Encoder, and an NCP 1400-5v Step up breakout.
Video demo here: vimeo.com/seannerd/dejahview
"Dejah View" - Event count-down / count-up timer
My daughter Dejah was keeping track of how many days it would be until she was 18. She was using pieces of paper taped to the wall, and hash marks. So, for Christmas, I thought I'd make a count-down timer for her that was digital. While making the prototype, I thought "Why just one date?", so I made it handle a bunch of dates. I also made it capable of displaying different time units - so you can see seconds, hours, days, weeks, months and years until or since an event.
I 'm planning to make the project into something more complete - and perhaps, embed the parts into a mirror frame - but for now, prototype #2 is working, so I thought I'd document that. Prototype #1 was on an arduino, and used two breadboards and a lot more jumpers. I think I'm nearly ready to migrate prototype #2's components into their final form.
The big parts of the project are: a standard 16x2 LCD panel, an amtel atmega328, a ChronoDot, a Rotary Encoder, and an NCP 1400-5v Step up breakout.
Video demo here: vimeo.com/seannerd/dejahview