Word Clock using X-Carve and electronic

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Word Clock in Action click here

I created the letters in Easel, importing a special stencil font, then cutting them on my X-Carve.

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I created a shadow box for each letter with a diffuser sheet.
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I used a 4-meter strip of RGB Neopixels and cut into 11 LEDs per row. Soldered rows together. Used Easel and X-Cave to create troves for the Neopixel strips.
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I then wrote CircuitPython code for the Adafruit Feather M0 Express to drive it all.
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The easel project for the face plate are at Easel - Word Clock Public

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That’s way cool!

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That’s a lotta maths involved.

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Very cool. Can you have the lights other than the time switched off completely?

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very cool

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Since this thing is driven from a python program, the lights can be turned off at any time. I decided to fill most of the lights with a dim random color and then display the time in words in a bright primary color. i hope this helps.

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That is really cool, Michael. So cool, I shared it with my local Python nerd. FYI, just from watching the video, as a colorblind type, it doesn’t work for me. :frowning: I would personally need all the non-active colors turned off. Very cool project!