natantus

I'm really excited that you're building this. I hope you share your finished clock.For the big ring of 60 pixels you need to orient the clock so that one of the pixels is exactly at the top to mark the zero minutes. Which pixel doesn't matter and I'll get to why in a minute.For the small ring of 24 pixels you need to orient the clock so that the top is actually between two pixels. The reason for this is that if you want to mark 12 hours then you end up lighting up two pixels instead of one. By having the offset, and with the diffusion of the plastic, it will appear as though you really have 12 wide pixels.As for which pixel the code designates as the "top", you need to edit the code a bit. I have two values in my code named "inner_top_led" and "outer_top_led...

I'm really excited that you're building this. I hope you share your finished clock.For the big ring of 60 pixels you need to orient the clock so that one of the pixels is exactly at the top to mark the zero minutes. Which pixel doesn't matter and I'll get to why in a minute.For the small ring of 24 pixels you need to orient the clock so that the top is actually between two pixels. The reason for this is that if you want to mark 12 hours then you end up lighting up two pixels instead of one. By having the offset, and with the diffusion of the plastic, it will appear as though you really have 12 wide pixels.As for which pixel the code designates as the "top", you need to edit the code a bit. I have two values in my code named "inner_top_led" and "outer_top_led". In my clocks the "inner_top_led" was 11 pixels from the start of the ring and the "outer_top_led" was 36 pixels from the start of the ring. If you happen to orient the rings differently then you would change these values to be the ones from your orientation. The part of the code for this is here:https://github.com/chrisgilmerproj/neoclock/blob/master/code/neoclock/neoclock.ino#L69-L70I'll add this to the instructable so its a bit more clear when constructing the clock. Thanks for the question!

You're absolutely right. I probably should have used a 1K resistor here. When I built the project I just used what I had at my desk and they are a bit small. I'll try to make a note in my instructable at some point to let people know. Thanks for bringing this up.

Thanks for the support! You're too kind.

Thank you so much!

I really find it useful when projects document as much as possible so I try to do the same. This clock was a labor of love so I really enjoy being able to share everything about it.