Simple Wi-Fi Connected Clock With Neo Pixel LED.

by rlochan in Circuits > Clocks

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Simple Wi-Fi Connected Clock With Neo Pixel LED.

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This is my new clock with five minute least count. I love clocks with multiple colors. The LED glow with RED color for hours , GREEN color for Minutes, and BLUE color if hour and minutes overlap.

Supplies

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Esp-01 ws2812 shield, Esp-01 ,DC Socket, 5V DC adaptor, Neo pixel ring 12 bit

Enclosure

Download my dxf files and cut enclosure on 3.5 mm MDF Board. (mine was 3.5 mm to be very precise) so please change the notch size in enclosure file if your board  is more then 3.5 mm.

Downloads

Face of Clock

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Now paint with black color (or any other color which ever you like) on acrylic sheet and let it dry. Then peel off the covering paper from acrylic sheet.

Assembly

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Assemble the enclosure as shown in the picture. Tighten the neo pixel ring with nut bolts. Then stick the ring for covering the led’s with double tape on its place. Glue two spacers with large hole on the front. And paste the acrylic sheet with thin double tape.

Firmware

Download the sketch and  insert the User name and password of your WiFi , Select NTP Server from pool (https://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/@) Change time Zone and program the esp-01 module with the sketch. (For details about pool server visit https://timetoolsltd.com/information/public-ntp-server/)

 

WiFi.begin("User_name","Password");

configTime(0 * 3600, 0, "in.pool.ntp.org", "time.nist.gov");

 setenv("TZ", "IST-5:30",1);

Downloads

Reading Time

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First picture shows one o clock, Second Picture shows 12 hr 55 min, third pic shows 1 hr 5 min