Tindie has been a great platform where makers from all over the world can create and sell their projects. This design worked perfectly, although it needs some improvement. I bought a low power laser and adapted it to my 3D printer, so I could design the board that would control the display. I really wanted to hang the clock on the wall so I started to prototype my first PCB.
#Super mario retro alarm clock instructions code#
We are makers, don't be intimidated if you don't have one tool or another, what matters is to get where you want to go.Īfter I made the base code for the clock, I needed a PCB. Just follow the instructions about the wiring on the display driver's GitHub or there is a wiring diagram in the next section that can help. For those who are interested in creating this project and are not able to create or buy a PCB that will control the display, a simple ESP32 development board will work like a charm and depending on how you organize this bunch of wires it can be a final version too. The LED matrix is controlled by an ESP32 and that is what I used in the initial stages of development as shown in the picture above. But for this article, let's focus on Mario's clock. Besides the appearance of the clock, I would like to add some features, such as: email notification, weather forecast, news, traffic, the possibility to send a text message to Clockwise and a myriad of other ideas. All of them are available on Clockwise's site. I mean, the idea was so good I'd like to use it somewhere else.īesides this clockface I built one that displays the time in words, another that shows the time on the world map and another that emulates an analog clock.
#Super mario retro alarm clock instructions skin#
I remember seeing and loving this skin in the good times of Pebble watch and always wanted something similar to this.
One of the first clockfaces I would like to have was a Mario Bros one, in which he stands on the stage and hits the blocks to change the hours and minutes. Think of it as a smartwatch, but on the wall (and with lower resolution).
The concept of Clockwise is to be a smart wall clock, where we can change the theme of the screen and add widgets that make sense for your context. I was thinking about what could be the next project, I saw that some makers were using a LED matrix to make several projects and thought that maybe I could make a wall clock with this matrix, and then the idea of Clockwise came up. In 2020, right after I created my first project, Pixie.
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