The author made the project for a friend who wanted to include it into an amplifier as an extra function. The project turned out really well and it works flawless. It’s based on the ATmega8 and it uses a 4 digit 7 segments common anodes led display to show the time. The code is pretty simple, written in C, but it lacks comments as the author did not felt the need to add them.
4 Digit ATmega8 Clock: [Link]
Daniel build this clock after having to chose from a watching a movie or working on a project. Obviously he and hi’s friend chose to make the clock so it wassn’t long until the LED’s started to light up. The clock code is based on the open-source-arduino-clock by Rob Faludi. Daniel made many changes, but the time counting the basically the same. So if you want to make another kind of clock, I suggest you to take a look on that code.
Arduino Based Binary Clock: [Link]
This project is based on the previous one posted and here the DCF77 runs the clock from the thermostat always on the right time synchronizing not beeing necessary anymore. The temperaturesensor is a DS1820 or DS18B20 and on a HD44780 (or compatible) 2×16 LC-Display becomes day, date, time, temperature (with 0.1°C precision) and an indication which temperature adjustment (economy- or comfort temperature) is active.
For each day there are 4 ON/OFF times to program, ON means here switch to the comfort temperature and OFF to the economy temperature.
A handy option is for people who work at different times (shift work) because it is possible to program the clock with a 2-weeks scheme.
As you can see a really complex program has been created for this project which makes it really handy for those who need it.
DCF77 Clock-Thermostat: [Link]
This project make use of a PIC16F628(A) and a DCF77 receiver from Conrad. Optional there is a possibility to connect an electronic gong on it. Every second is on PORTA.1 (pin 18) a pulse from 0.5 second. This signal isn’t necessary for anything, but maybe you want to connect a LED on it, so that these wil blink every second, or a piezo buzzer, so that the clock ticks as an analog clock.
Overall the project is great and someone put allot of work into designing it.
Digital DCF77 clock with LCD and gong: [Link]
It’s a good idea to use LCD’s with projects like this instead of led digits, because LCD’s don’t need to be refreshed, they allow you to display many characters and it requires less I/O pins. In this project a 16×1 LCD Display with 4-bits interface it’s used. Time and date are displayed as HH:MM:SSx mmm dd, where: HH = Hours MM = Minutes SS = Seconds x = AM/PM mmm = Month (Jan, Feb, Mar) dd = Day.
LCD Display with Date and Time: [Link]
