Making 14-segment LED alarm clocks #Arduino #Feather
Peter started making an alarm clock during the pandemic with Adafruit Feather components. Things took off from there:
My next step was to make a “talking” clock which, at the push of a button, announces the time. This was a gift for my 91 year old mother-in-law who has almost completely lost her sight.
Recently I decided that I wanted some way in which the date and time parameters could be set without attaching the clock to a computer.
Using Adafruit’s open source designs, Peter modified the display to use 4 character 14 segment LED displays from China including integrated colons for the clocks.
All the code, in Arduino, has been made available.
You can see testing the displays in the video (below) and read it all in the post here.
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