Tix LED Clock

A great looking clock that is relatively easy to build (out of wood at least) at a reasonable price point. The Tix LED Clock seems to no longer be available. There is a site (AP Digital light: Wood block LED clock) that shows how to make it but they use "left over" parts that they had on hand. An Element14 friendly version would be greatly appreciated.

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donotdespisethesnake over 11 years ago +1

Interesting, I am just working on a Tix design now For a prototype I am using addressable RGB LEDs, not something Element14 have. I am also doing a design for RGB LEDs for use in a large version which…
gweeds over 8 years ago +1

Hi There, Old message I know, but I'd like to inform you that a new Tix Clock is available at www.tixclock.shop Full RGB Display - Pattern Selectable - Battery Backup and automatic brightness.

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manuofficial 4 months ago

anyone made this? I went to the website, but the resouce downloads are gone.
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Jan Cumps 4 months ago in reply to manuofficial

The last post on that website was in 2012 - I think this knowledge is lost.
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manuofficial 4 months ago in reply to Jan Cumps

That is a bummer. Would've loved to have a go at this. been looking at alternate DIY versions, most of them use weird IC's that aren't easily available in India. Although, Ive come accross a couple of Arduino Nano and ESP32 based ones but those too have been half-baked and have missing knowledge-bases.
Would've been a fun first project to dive into microcontrollers and programming. ah, well
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manuofficial 4 months ago in reply to Jan Cumps

That is a bummer. Would've loved to have a go at this. been looking at alternate DIY versions, most of them use weird IC's that aren't easily available in India. Although, Ive come accross a couple of Arduino Nano and ESP32 based ones but those too have been half-baked and have missing knowledge-bases.
Would've been a fun first project to dive into microcontrollers and programming. ah, well
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beacon_dave 4 months ago in reply to manuofficial

Perhaps start by taking a look at this tutorial series on animating LEDs

/learn/learning-center/stem-academy/microbit/microbit-tutorial-videos/b/blog/posts/animating-leds

The clock above is basically 27 LEDs being animated.
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