Post project 42: What-Remainsof- the-Day Clock
September 19, 2014
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According to Wikipedia, ‘A gadget is a small tool such as a machine that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty.’ German Wikipedia goes further, remarkably stressing the fun factor, which it says ‘can play a major role, as these devices often cross the boundary between functionality and frivolity.’ For positive proof of this statement, just read on!
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People buy things because they are either useful, convenient, amusing, or else make the neighbors envious. This fourth gap in the market is the one we shall now set out to fill! [1] Nobody actually needs one of these but everybody will want to own one. Our What- Remains-of-the-Day Clock—actually it’s a Day Remaining Clock—fills this niche very adequately. Anyone who can remain asleep until 12 noon may well have not have realized that they have already dozed through half of the day. They glance at the clock and just think: “12 o’ clock—so what!?!” But the point of perception is that it should cause us to react and do something. This project aims to make people more aware of the passing of time during the day.
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People buy things because they are either useful, convenient, amusing, or else make the neighbors envious. This fourth gap in the market is the one we shall now set out to fill! [1] Nobody actually needs one of these but everybody will want to own one. Our What- Remains-of-the-Day Clock—actually it’s a Day Remaining Clock—fills this niche very adequately. Anyone who can remain asleep until 12 noon may well have not have realized that they have already dozed through half of the day. They glance at the clock and just think: “12 o’ clock—so what!?!” But the point of perception is that it should cause us to react and do something. This project aims to make people more aware of the passing of time during the day.
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NickT 7 years ago
NickT 6 years ago
I spotted that the contrast adjuster wiring is wrong on the schematic and tried wiring it as its shown everywhere else with the wiper connecting to the contrast pin and the two end of the pot across the supply/ I've gone into the "source" (the .bas) fle and confirmed that in that version at least the pins that are shown on the schematic are the pin assigned in the software, I've rebuilt the connections between display and uP at least three times and tried several different LCDs - all to no avail so I guess that I must be missing something obvious ?
Very interested to see if anyone has either tried to build it, or actually got it working ...
Nick