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bigmik

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Posted: 06:18am 02 Aug 2022

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Hi Bleep, All,

The only line I added was RTC GETTIME

Spent half an hour playing with colours to end up near your default colour scheme

Beautiful job.

Here is a picture of near where its final resting place will be.

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Mick

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morgs67
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Posted: 01:38pm 02 Aug 2022

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Hi bigmik,

What type is the display you are using?

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Posted: 02:17pm 02 Aug 2022

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Never mind... silly question.
Edited 2022-08-03 01:04 by pwillard

Bleep
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Posted: 03:57pm 02 Aug 2022

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Hi Mike,
If you like assorted clocks, try this.
Put the solar system clock in Flash slot 1
Put the multi clock in flash slot 2
Put clockclock in flash slot 3
I have the following options set.
OPTION AUTORUN 1
OPTION CPUSPEED 256000
OPTION RTC AUTO ENABLE

If you then 'flash run 1', or power off/on you will get a whole selection of clocks in sequence, each one displays for a few minutes, then moves on to the next, I gave a bit more time to the clockclock and the solar clock. Screen brightness is retained across clocks and can be changed by touching top or bottom Left of screen, touching the middle bottom of the screen, moves on to another clock; on the solar clock, touching upper right, fast forwards the solar system, lower right fast reverses the solar system, upper middle resets to todays date, try going back to 1977, then you can see the nice spiral pattern of the outer planets that Voyager used to do the grand tour. :-) (Though I think you said your touch was broken) :-(
Unfortunately you'll have to re-do your colours, if you don't like a clock, most of them are in the multi clock, they are called in sequence near the top, just comment out the call. I've also thrown in a Easter egg.
Regards, Kevin.

clockclockclocks.zip
Edited 2022-08-03 01:57 by Bleep

morgs67
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Posted: 12:37am 03 Aug 2022

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Hi Bleep/Kevin,

What a great project! I am rounding up the parts to build this. Also now will upgrade to the assorted clocks.

Can you give me the details of the display panel you are using?
TIA

Tony

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Posted: 04:09am 03 Aug 2022

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Hi Tony, All,

morgs67 said Hi bigmik,

What type is the display you are using?

Tony

Assuming you mean the TFT module, and not my 3 monitors, I am using an ILI9488 3.5" 14pin SPI module.

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Mick

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Bleep
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Posted: 08:21am 03 Aug 2022

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Hi Tony,
If you get the PicoMite manual, around page 43, it tells you about LCD panels, I use a �ILI9481 controller with touch with SPI serial interface (not parallel). This supports 480*320 resolution, looks like Mick is using a ILI9488 480*320 display, you can get these reasonably cheap from Ebay or AliExpress, either 3.5" or 4", mine also supports screen brightness, usually a pin that is labled LED or BL. If you want to use the clocks, you need the display to be 480*320 as the programs are optimised for this size. If you get the Window version of MMBasic working you can play around with that.
Regards, Kevin.
Ebay link to possible display
Edited 2022-08-03 18:35 by Bleep

morgs67
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Posted: 11:21am 03 Aug 2022

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Hi Mick and Kevin,

Thanks for the info. I have a suitable display, so will get into it. I had misinterperated some other info

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morgs67
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Posted: 11:22am 05 Aug 2022

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Hi Kevin,

Got a ILI9488 hooked up to the picomite. Loaded up the firmware and calibrated the display OK. Then loaded the basic program.
I have tried a few iterations and reloaded everything but after typing run, I get the following:

52 Backlight bright

Error Backlight not set up

Any Ideas?

TIA

Tony

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Posted: 11:46am 05 Aug 2022

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For the backlight function to work you need to specify which GP pin the display backlight control pin is connected to.
OPTION LCDPANEL ILI9488, OR, DC, RESET, CS, BACKLIGHT

Mick

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morgs67
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Posted: 12:22pm 05 Aug 2022

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Hi Mick,

Thanks very much for spotting my rookie error. I was following an example that did not have a backlight control.(another RTFM!)

cheers Tony

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Posted: 04:10pm 10 Aug 2022

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Hi Everyone,
I've just got round to creating a video of the complete cycle of Clocks, which you would get if you download and install the ClockClockClocks.zip file from my post just above. :-) I've massivly reduced the time each is displayed just for the video, the focus isn't great, but you'll get an idea.
ClockClockClocks video

Regards, Kevin.

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Posted: 05:06pm 10 Aug 2022

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my 5 Paneth, I think it's a great project, certainly interesting.
I did a clock with sin,cos on basic with no floats so sin x*255 etc.worked though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axFpz4W6CzE

Bleep
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Posted: 03:33pm 09 Sep 2022

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Hi Mick and anyone else interested.

I have now added some extra animations during time transitions, apart from the normal transitioning from one time to the next, every 6 minutes it will go off into a world of its own for a minute, before returning to displaying the time, there are about 25 of these digressions, so it'll take a while to go through them all.
I have also improved visibility by making the hands slightly fatter, I've also adjusted the way the digit '1' is displayed, so that the number layout looks better, when a '1' is on the display.
As before there are two versions, clockclock24 is stand alone, 3clockclock24 is intended to be used with the other clock programs I uploaded 03Aug.
As before you will need to adjust to your preferred colours.
Otherwise should all be good. :-) hopefully.
Regards, Kevin.

ClockClock24.zip

Bleep
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Posted: 12:51pm 14 Sep 2022

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A few pictures for the new number layout and some of the various animations.

This shows the new layout when a '1' digit is being displayed.

Some shots of the clocks in mid animation.

Regards Kevin.

bigmik

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Posted: 11:22pm 14 Sep 2022

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Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the update, I just saw your post, I will check it out later today,

Regards,

Mick

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Posted: 11:19am 15 Sep 2022

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Quick and dirty adaptation to picomite VGA (mode 1 monochrome)

clockclock24_pico.zip

Woks nice at OPTION CPUSPEED 252000

Volhout

P.S. if you choose triangular hands (3 coordinate polygons) the visuals are corrupt. Probably there is some calculation that updates (hardcoded) 4 coordinates per hand, in stead of a variable (3 or 4) used in the DIM statement.
Edited 2022-09-15 21:37 by Volhout

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Posted: 01:52pm 15 Sep 2022

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stanleyella said my 5 Paneth, I think it's a great project, certainly interesting.
I did a clock with sin,cos on basic with no floats so sin x*255 etc.worked though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axFpz4W6CzE

Cool

I wasn't even aware that GC BASIC worked on the Arduino.

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Bleep
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Posted: 03:22pm 20 Sep 2022

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Hi Volhout,
Thanks for the conversion, I have made a few corrections/improvements.
I've moved the date to be central on the screen; because of the size increase the hands had become a bit trapezoid, so I've adjusted that, increased the delay to slow the animation a bit, removed redundant code, added setting the variable lasthour so that the date only refreshes at midnight, instead of every pass.
Because the VGA is so much faster updating the graphics, the triangular hands are not needed so I have removed the code, I hadn't been keeping it up to speed anyway, as you found. :-)
Regards, Kevin.

clockclock24_vga.zip

matherp
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Posted: 03:50pm 20 Sep 2022

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If you want to get rid of flicker completely make the changes as follows (needs latest beta)

' turn off default typing and force explicit typing
Option EXPLICIT
Option DEFAULT NONE
MODE 1
FRAMEBUFFER create
FRAMEBUFFER write f
' Screen = 640*480

' Draw new hands.
� Polygon n(),hsx(),hsy(),,c.hand
�FRAMEBUFFER copy f,n,b
' copy the new hands, so we can erase them next time

and why not add some colour with the TILE command?
Edited 2022-09-21 01:53 by matherp

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