Of course, the purpose of any clock, besides being pretty, is to display the time. All a terminal adapter does is to enable us to connect our wires to the Arduino using screws. To avoid a lot of soldering (which takes time and is quite a craft), I use a terminal adapter for the Arduino Nano. You can find infinitely many programs on the internet to mess around with, quite fun! This tiny computer is able to control the RGB led strip. The brain of the Word Clock is the Arduino Nano. This works perfectly fine, but takes a lot of time to build! However, in my first version, I made the grid out of thin wooden strips which I glued together. I also tried this, but this did not work out for me. In other Instructables, this grid was made using foam strips that are put together in a grid. To accomplish this, I used a laser cutter to cut out a grid of wooden board. So, when one led turns on, it should light up one letter. So, by connecting one wire, you can control all the leds in the strip!īehind every letter on the face of the Word Clock (please see later this step) hides one led of the RGB led strip. The RGB led strip is controlled by one input (still a bit of magic to me). By combining the three colors, (almost) every color can be created. My current version uses a RGB led strip: this is a led strip in which each 'light bulb' consists of a Red, Green and Blue led. Now that I made eight Word Clocks, which I try to improve each time, I think it is time to share my experience!Īn advantage of my experience is that the latest version of my Word Clock is actually quite simple: if you have all the components, you should be able to build it in one day. A few years ago, I started making my first Word Clock, inspired by the nice Instructables available.
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