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Digital / RGB-666 Moon Clock
I wanted a clock that would display the time in large yellow characters and display the week and day. For fun added a 60 RGB neo-pixel ring to tick off the seconds.
The last part was to display the phase of the moon in a fun way and found these to be entertaining.
I cut a sheet of plex-glass to 8x11 sheet. I used miniature self-tapping screws to mount the RGB neo-pixel ring. I used this same kind of screws to mount the 4-digit display and two of the Quad Alphanumerica Displays.
I drill large enough holes to plug the displays up to the Adafruit Qualia ESP32-S3 and daisy chained the rest.
I did solder 3 wires to the RGB neo-pixel ring a crimped a 3-pin connector on the other and plugged it in socket A0.
I used Photopea to create a 3x3 of the moon phases I found on the internet. For the new moon phase I copied the full moon phase and changed its color from yellow to blue. and its a seperate .bmp file.
I am not a very good coder anymore and new to python. I am sure there are better coders out there than me for sure. I hacked most of the code from other projects.
Parts Required for this project:
- Adafruit Qualia ESP32-S3 for TTL RGB-666 Displays (PI - 5800
- Round RGB TTL TFT Display -2.1" (PI - 5806)
- NeoPixel 1/4 60 Ring 5050 RGB LED w/Integrated Drivers (PI -1768)
- Quad Alphanumerica Display - Blue 0.54" Digits w/ I2C Backpack - Stemma QT / Qwiic (PI 1912)
- Assembled Adafruit 0.56: 4-Digit 7 Segment Display -w/ I2c Backpack QT - Yellow (PI 5602)
- Stemma QT JST SH 4-Pin Cable (50mm & 100mm)