2 Hour Alarm Clock
Ene Vinson
I started by prying off the plastic front to the clock. This was a bit tricky, what worked for me was using a thin metal sculpting tool to slide into the gap. I then had to do a bit of a lever action to pop the plastic tabs out of their spots on either side of the clock.
The clock face is just some kind of heavy paper, with the numbers printed directly onto it. Taking inspiration from this I instead measured the clock face and then used that to create a design that matched the one shown in the movie. I spray painted some white paper with the spray paint I planned on using for the clock body, scanned it, and then used the eye dropper tool to try and colour match things best I could.
I printed out a test page to check the size and colour were right, and when it looked good I had the clock face printed off on nice cardstock. I ended up getting mine printed at Staples, but if you have a nice enough printer you could probably do this at home.
I cut out my clock face and then set about sticking it onto the little rubber ring that the original clock face was stuck on. The original clock face was attached in two spots by some double-sided tape. Taking a cue from that, I also used tape to secure my clock face to the rubber ring. I then set the clock face back in place.
Once the spray paint was dry it was time to start assembling! I put the clock face on, then started re-attaching the clock hands. I ended up adding a small jump ring spray painted the same pink as the clock body around the spot where the hands attach to. I wanted something to help cover up the edge of the cardstock as my cutting job on the centre hole was a bit shaky.
Before replacing the clock hands (hour hand first, then the minute hand, and lastly the second hand), I rounded off the square ends of the hour and minute hands. I also cut down the second hand so that it matched the length of the original prop.
Anyways, the clock I got uses the plastic front piece to help secure the clock face in place, so I decided to put the plastic back in. If you want to leave the plastic off to be a bit more movie accurate, then you might just have to figure out a way to make sure the clock face stays in place. The plastic piece also has the nice benefit of covering up the edge of the clock face, so once again my shaky cutting job was successfully covered up.
Hi this is my first time posting in the forum so I apologize in advance for my newness. I code a little and I really want some experience using arduino so I'm using an uno to make an RTC alarm clock. I have an LCD screen and 3 buttons in pullup configuration and an SPST switch attached. The buttons are Set/snooze, increment hours and increment minutes. The switch lets the user pick between setting the time or setting an alarm. The default screen always shows the time and date.
From the default screen, the user holds the set button for 2 seconds to enter either the time or alarm set mode depending on the position of the switch. I want to increment hours and minutes the same way for both settings and simply save them into their own variables and eventually compare them to sound an alarm. My problem is the hours and minutes do not increment when I push either the hours or minutes button. I understand I have not coded a way for the user to get back to the default screen. I was thinking a 10 second timeout after no button pushes is best but I can't get anything to increment. I can display the time and date and holding the set button for 2 seconds enters the correct modes but the hours and minutes buttons do nothing.
I'm using the DS1307 breakout board from adafruit and I'm also using RTClib. I'm planning to switch these buttons to the analog pins after I add the wave shield from adafruit as well to sound the alarm. I've only been testing for the alarm setting mode since I want the time setting mode to essentially do the same thing. I didn't show the other functions because they work properly. It's just this function I'm having trouble with. Any help would be greatly appreciated
I don't know what is causing your current problem, but the delay()s scattered through your program are going to cause problems at some stage I suspect. Why do you need to delay() 1 second, or delay() at all in the function that displays the time ? Surely it would be better to display the time when it changes which would make the system much more responsive to inputs.
I made the delays so I could follow what was going on through the Serial monitor. I was going to replace some of them with millis() so they don't stop the rest of my program but I just wanted some quick debugging. Should I do that instead?
They come but twice a day, the blue hour and the golden hour. The thing is though, many of us tend to shoot in the evening variants of those hours, mainly because we are already up, caffeinated and full of energy.
This is the hardest thing to do, however, the more often you do it, the easier it becomes to get up. The main reason for this is your inspiration will drive your motivation. As you build a collection of beautiful morning twilight images, you will realize what a special time of day it is to shoot.
If that looks good, set yourself several alarms giving yourself plenty of time to get up and out. Personally, I have trained myself to leap out of bed at the sound of the first alarm, drink a strong coffee and take a quick but hot shower. This tends to fool the body into believing its later in the morning.
There are several reasons for this. The first and most obvious is there will be very few people. If you wish to capture a beautiful cityscape or iconic building, there is unlikely to be tourists around blocking your view or even asking you to take their picture.
The morning blue hour also has the advantage in that the light is increasing not fading as in the evening. This tends to take the pressure off of trying to get the shot before the light has completely gone. You know once the sun is over the horizon you still have the wonders of the golden hour in which to shoot.
Weather is an important consideration in predawn blue hour shots. In the summer it will often be much cooler and less humid than its evening equivalent making it much more comfortable for the photographer.
One of the prime things to consider when planning a pre-dawn shoot is getting to your location. You need to plan to get on site up to an hour before sunrise. If the location is remote this may mean walking along dark paths so carrying a torch is highly recommended.
The use of a photographer ephemeris is very helpful as it will show when the civil twilight will start and where the sun will rise at the end of twilight. This will help you plan where the lightest parts of the sky will be.
A sturdy tripod will be an essential as the low light of blue hour will require some pretty slow shutter speeds. Graduated filters can also be useful especially later in the twilight to hold back some of the beautiful hues the that the sky can have at this time of morning.
However, as you come to realize just how beautiful the shots can be, you will increasingly find the motivation to get up early and get out shooting. Hopefully, some of the tips in this article will also contribute to your motivation.
Most of the United States went from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time this past weekend, which means that my Sunday morning consisted of walking around the house adjusting the times on the clocks in the house. This is normally a chore that takes just a few minutes.
I spent an hour resetting the clock, going through the configuration process again, trying different Wi-Fi networks, resetting my phone, resetting my router, resetting my reset button, nothing worked.
One of my friends has an atomic clock. His problem is that the signal is poor in the room, so whenever the time changes, he has to unplug the clock, go to another room, plug it in, let it sync the time, and then move back to the original room.
Have you tried setting your wifi router / AP to only broadcast 2.4 Ghz? Some of these automated wifi things get tripped up when the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz radios have the same SSID. I had this problem when connecting my new fancy Philips wifi lightbulbs that took a whole hour to configure.
...It doesn't work (nothing happens), even though it works on the Run dialog. When I explicitly click "Run now" (it's first set to run on a scheduled time), also nothing happens. And when I set it to display a message or send an email instead, it displays an error which apparently means the feature's been deprecated (and the method on that website didn't work either).
So, is there any way to achieve this natively on Windows 10? When I used a Mac, a few years ago, all you had to do was check an option telling the system clock to chime on the hour. I don't get why this VERY SIMPLE AND USEFUL THING needs to be this difficult.
Change the C:\Windows\Media\Alarm01.wav to the full path and filename of the sound you want to play. I've tested files ending wav and mp3 and they work fine, there are probably other formats which work too.
The only problem you'll have with WMP is that it no longer supports automatically closing after playback so your scheduled task can open WMP and play your sound but you'll need to write another Scheduled Task to close WMP a few seconds later as it'll remain open and it won't play the sound again...
To be brutally honest, you're best looking for an application that will run in the system tray that can play a sound at your preferred interval and it'll probably be more reliable than launching a resource thirsty application for a simple "chime".
Well all I can do is tell you what worked for me in trying to find out how to disable the chime alarm that played every hour on the hour. It drove me nuts quite frankly but if that is what you are looking to have, you can find it in W10 under the Gadgets called "Date Time." It is a small, thin bar that is displayed on the desktop which shows the date & time. The options function gives you the choice of having an alarm sound every hour. You can do this by clicking on the config tab, then checking the box that says "Hourly Notify -- enable?" By enabling this the computer will chime every hour on the hour. Hope that helps. This is the easiest way to be reminded that each hour has arrived. Enjoy!! :)
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