Lumitock, An Open Source LED Grid Clock

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Lumitock, An Open Source LED Grid Clock

Love Nick Veys’ clock:

Lumitock is an “LED grid” clock, where the time is represented by the number of lit LEDs within a segment of the clock.

Lumitock is based on the Arduino platform, specifically using an Arduino Pro Mini 328 (socketed, I have commitment issues). It also uses a DS1337C RTC for time-keeping, and TLC5940 LED drivers to keep track of all that light. I used BatchPCB to fab some boards for it, and they turned out great. Very solid, and such an easy service when time isn’t much of a factor.

You can find the source files on github.

2 thoughts on “Lumitock, An Open Source LED Grid Clock

  1. Wouter Suverkropp says:

    That way of showing the time is 
    a) done on the TiX clock, and 
    b) patented
    It would at the very least be nice to credit the TiX clock folks.

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