Arduino Domino clock

In this Instructable, i will try to make this awesome clock i found at Hack-a-day website. A little is explained about how the clock works since it is still in development. But from The You-tube video, it seems that they are using some kind of Flip-disc display, there is no wires between the Hours / minutes stone, witch suggest that it using some kind of wireless technology.

My Electronic knowledge is very limited, so the stones will be wired together.

Since i wanted to make something similar,and since i have no experience in Electronics what so ever ( this is my first electronic project ), i made an intensive research, bought an Adruino start kit, experimented a bit. and read a lot of Instructables and forums, i learned a lot, and i want to share what i learned with you.

I will try me best to explain my work in as much details as can, sharing some of the links i went through during making this project

So This Instructable is how to make this domino clock using an Adruino board, i will try to divide it mainly in three parts :

1 - The hardware
      -  The DIY electromagnet / Flip-dot
      -  The Actual electronic circuit
2 - The software
3 - The building of the actual clock case

So .... let's start ! :)

Step 1 Skills required

As i said before even if i have a big interest to electronic, and have no knoledge of it, so this is my really first project. so if you are a newbee like me, do some research understand stuff, and how component works, it is not that difficult really .. a lot of logic is involved.

During my "journey" i found out that you have to have and understanding for :

  - Basic electronics. ( Read the Instructable. You'll still learn a lot!)
  - How to solder.
  - How to use a multimeter etc.
  - Writing code in C, or at least being able understand the code you are reading and how it does work.

You should also have patience and a generous amount of free time. :)

Comments

[stregoi]

Actually, i just remade my design and i'am using servos, i will update my instructables with pictures and schematics, for the servos part

[fduvert]

excellent, thx a lot, could you give also some pictures of your arduino and shield board

[fduvert]

Hello thx for your contributions i would to know if i can replace the flip dot by servo using the servo library in arduino and can i have other modification in the booard to do?

thx a lot
best regards