Micro Clock Bit With a Digital Display and Frame, Disclaimer Materials Not Included.

This is going to be a tutorial for making a mini clock using a Micro-Bit and a DIY stand that involves concentric circles around the clockface to give it a special look, the DIY stand also includes a spot for a bottle or a pencil cup.

Materials Needed Include:

1. Two pieces of cardboard, one about 23.7mm x 10.8mm, the second piece 41.3cm x 20.6cm
2. V2 Micro-Bit
3. Battery box
4. 2 Triple A batteries
5. A cutting plier
6. Around 3 pairs of wooden chopsticks
7. Scissors
8. Ruler
9. A Hot Glue Gun
10. Glue Stick
11. String of any choice, not to thick but not to thin.

This photo right here is the code, which can be found on the Micro-Bit website. I then added the code in the second photo which when the logo of the microbit is pressed, the clock will reset to 00:00. Pressing 'A' will add a hour to the clock and pressing 'B' will add a minute to the clock. Pressing 'A+B' will trigger the change in AM and PM. The 5th picture limits the number shown to the amount of minutes in a hour and amount of hours in a day.

Finally the 6th picture shows how the clock counts and displays the time on the microbit light screen, and when pin 0 is pressed it turns on and when pin 2 is pressed then it turns off.

Using the first piece of cardboard (mine was a little wierd shaped), trace the Micro: Bit's primeter on the cardboard in a corner, then cut the shape out. Make sure that the shape has a hole in the center ( which can be done by folding the cut cardboard in half then cutting half of the length of the hole) and a space for the charging ports and battery connecter. Repeat it again if your cardboard is thin and doesn't fully cover the microbits back, using the glue stick, stick the two pieces together and add tape atop of one of the center cutouts ,don't do both.

With the original first piece of cardboard, cut as many lines as circles desired along the bottom and at about half a centremeter wide each. After cutting it, wrap the first strip of cardboard around the holding piece and using the glue stick and some tape, attach the two ends of the cardboard together (shown in figure 2). Repeat this step for every circle and to make it easier to connect, overlap the ends a bit when glueing and taping. Tape weak points of the cardboard to avoid it snapping and leave ample room between the rings for it to revolve and gyrate.

After making your circles, you can choose to paint it if the cardboard looks to unappealing. I personally chose a white inside with a black ring and then another white ring to add variation instead of it being just white or just black.

Using 2 similar pins, (small ones) carefully push them on opposite sides of each other on the outer ring then into the middle ring/rings and finally through the smallest ring and into the center holding piece where the end of the pin should sit in.

For this step, you can use any type of string but I chose kite string as it's thin and best thing I had when attaching the clock body to the stand.

For the frame, I painted it whitye with strokes of black to make it seem aged and give it a spark of color different from white.

To build the frame, you will need a chopstick shorten to 1/2 extending out, then snapping a seperate chopstick in to 1/2 and attaching with a full chopstick that is angled, under it will be another full chopstick 90 degrees upwards and then using another chopstick split at 2/5 placed at the end of the first chopstick that attaches to the angled chopstick, using the other 1/2 chopstick earlier attach it to the 3/5 chopstick at 90 degree attached to the angled chopstick like a building support. At the base using a full chopstick placing it and attaching it to the 90 degrees up chopstick with another chopstick snapped in half placed 45 degree from the center one that extends to the straight up one, with the other half piece placed the same way but opposite so negative 45 degrees.

Using the second piece of cardboard cut it into 3 pieces, one 14cm x 5.5cm, the second piece 13.9cm x 7.4cm, the final piece 13.4cm x 6.7cm. The second and final piece will attach to the first piece using hot glue and making incisions (not all the way through0 to make it easier for the cardboard to bend the way needed. Finally, hot glue the first piece of cardboard to the chopstick centering it as much to the center parrallel to the length. At the bottom, poke the full length center chopstick through the cardboard center piece and hot glue it together to attach the cup holder more securely to the frame.

To wire and give power to the Micro: Bit, requires spcial wiring to make it not messy but also not to large, or to break anything. The wire of the battery has to be fed through to the Micro; Bit on the other side and connected, then push the Micro; Bit into the holder and stick the battery box to the back of the holding cardboard, warpping the extra wire around itself to create a elipse around the battery box that attaches to the Micro; Bit.