longstaff/arduino-clock

Clock to display time period "morning", "afternoon" etc. with arduino micro and chained switches for 16 segment LEDs

Arduino dementia clock

This design is to help those dementia patients with reading the time, as an accompaniment to a normal clock to help with time recognition. The readout loops through "NIGHT", "MORNING", "NOON", "AFTERNOON", "EVENING", "NIGHT" based on the hour of the day. This is a very basic switch based on the fact I couldnt find anything on the market. The LEDs are now out of production so will have to be replaced with a suitable display readout.

Requirements

Requires Wire library with the clock set up for SDA/SCL pins as described here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/reference/wire

Hardware

This setup uses:

• 1 * Arduino Micro
• 1 * Rotary encoder (with button): https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9117
• 1 * Real time clock: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12708
• 9 * 16 segment LEDs (Now retired): https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/9933
• 18 * LED Switches to drive displays

Hardware diagram to be added later.