MutantNoodles
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I am doing Product Design as an A level at my school, and for my second project i decided to design a clock. However i didnt want to design any normal clock, because i did systems and control (circuitry and electicals) for my GCSE and i got an A* in it. I wanted to bring some of my electronics skills over into this project. But however i have a problem, i have no idea how to make a circuit for a digital clock, and especially not for the design i have in mind. This is the link for a picture of the idea seen head on : **broken link removed**
The idea is that instead of hands, or digits telling the time, i would use light. The outer 12 coloured rectangles are made out of acrylic and are 'embedded' in the wood, these indicate the hour individually by lighting up with LED's in the wood, eg in the picture it indicates that the hour hand is on or past 1 o'clock. The inner ring is made up of 60 LED's, each one representing its corresponding minute of each hour, the idea is to show the rough time on the minute hand, not to actually count up to what minute it is. E.g. 1:25
I have done some research on clock circuits and i am yet to find anything on a circuit like this, i am maybe thinking about using two decade counters somehow? Any help on what to do would be amazing. Thanks in advance
The idea is that instead of hands, or digits telling the time, i would use light. The outer 12 coloured rectangles are made out of acrylic and are 'embedded' in the wood, these indicate the hour individually by lighting up with LED's in the wood, eg in the picture it indicates that the hour hand is on or past 1 o'clock. The inner ring is made up of 60 LED's, each one representing its corresponding minute of each hour, the idea is to show the rough time on the minute hand, not to actually count up to what minute it is. E.g. 1:25
I have done some research on clock circuits and i am yet to find anything on a circuit like this, i am maybe thinking about using two decade counters somehow? Any help on what to do would be amazing. Thanks in advance
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