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Your (My) very own Sunrise alarm clock.

Lim Han Yang on Projects, LED, DS1307, LED strip, sunrise, alarm | 14 Dec 2016

I've always wanted to build one of these: Figure 1. Philips Wake-Up Light There are many (claimed) benefits to having a Sunrise alarm, one of which includes a gentler wake-up as compared to the loud buzzing of an alarm in the darkness. I noticed that I often would shut off…

Time, counters, and other shenanigans (11)

Lim Han Yang on time, DS1307, RTC, ULCEK Tutorials | 11 Dec 2016

Microcontrollers are not really good at keeping time, no really. Over long periods of days or weeks of continuous running, they start to lose seconds and minutes. That's why we have Real Time Counters (RTC) to help us keep time. They are microcontrollers as well, but their sole purpose is…